Word: commandant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ortega y Gasset wrote, "Before long there will be heard throughout the planet a formidable cry, rising like the howling of innumerable dogs to the stars, asking for someone or something to take command." The world was not exactly howling last week, just casting its gaze around anxiously...
...Republicans' command of the medium was counterbalanced by the weakness of their message. The Democrats are ridiculed as the party of litmus- test politics, bowing to the pressures of peace activists, labor unions, minority groups and feminists. But last week's debate revealed the degree to which the Republicans are tugged by their own special interests: right-wing red hots. Front Runners Bush and Robert Dole found themselves pitted against a field of yapping underdogs, each catering to causes championed by conservative activists. Haig, du Pont, Jack Kemp and Pat Robertson all blasted Bush's ardent support for the proposed...
Boyer said that "the greatest responsibilityfor leadership" in recovering the importance ofteaching in educational institutions lies with thelarge research universities, on account of theinfluence they command in the profession...
Miranda recently would have had access to Ortega's own conversation with the high command about "strategy, doctrine, even where the war in Central America would go in case of a U.S. intervention," the defense minister said...
...inflated casks/ of ribs trapped between shafts,/ snap at the rusted harrows/ with gnashing profiles." Such concrete images can survive the transition from Russian to English with much of their freshness intact. To write his poems, Brodsky still uses his native language, but he has acquired a formidable, sinuous command of English. He sometimes translates his own works...