Word: commandant
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...grew up in a housing project in Elmira, N.Y., lived on food stamps for a time and thought about being a math teacher after seeing her father, a surveyor, lay out streets. But Eileen Collins went into the Air Force instead and in 1999 became the first woman to command a shuttle mission--on the Columbia, which broke apart in midair less than four years later, killing its crew of seven. As soon as next month, Collins, 48, will command the shuttle Discovery in the first U.S. manned space flight since the Columbia disaster brought such missions to a halt...
...been trying to get over, and haven’t been able to rest much playing every day. But it felt good, and I told coach it was about time to get up there and get an inning or two in. My arm felt pretty good, and I had command of most of my pitches...
Houses are rather cult-like organizations that command a startling amount of loyalty and fervor among their residents—especially in regard to House Masters. Masters occupy a rather pharaoh-like man-god niche in the undergraduate psyche. It could just be all the free pastry, but it seems that every student in the House system would argue that their Master is the best, the most “chill,” the most interesting—all in an unsettling “black Nikes waiting for the comet” kind of way (at least, when...
...have been a wizard, a warrior, a god. I have built civilizations and seen others toppled at my command. I have colonized planets, built starfleets. I have killed, and I have plundered. I have died and been resurrected. Parades have been thrown in my honor, fireworks set off. I have jumped through every hoop in these algorithmic mazes, satisfied every goal conceived of and coded by pajama’d malcontents, and I have enjoyed every moment of it. But what has it all given me? How have these hours and days of absorption affected the way I experience reality...
...don’t get moral status by just potential,” Brock said. “If Kerry had won the election, then on January 1 he would have been potentially commander-in-chief of the armed forces, but he wouldn’t have had the right to command the armed forces when he just had the potential...