Word: commandants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sandwiches from 35 to a tentative 40 cents. "All but a few sandwiches will stay the same," he continued, adding that he would await further moves by his competitors. Normally a power behind the scenes, Sarantos had appeared during the current crisis in Washington to take personal command of his forces...
Rear Admiral Thorvald A. Solberg, in command of the target ship's salvage operation, ordered his crews away from the light carrier Independence, hardest hit of the big ships, because Geiger counters indicated the waters contained radio-activity five times greater than a human being could safely endure
...state designed (by optimistic Leninist-Marxist prophecy) to wither away, officers had been receiving only spotty respect and obedience. Now that the state was sprouting stronger & stronger, they were given new power & glory: "The senior in command is not to leave unpunished a single offense. . . . Officers . . . have the right ... to make declarations concerning misuse and shortcomings. . . . Courts of Honor have been created for the guarding of the dignity and honor of the officers' rank...
Tremor of Finality. "Operation Crossroads" (the irony of the name is intentional) had been ordered by the Combined Chiefs of Staff in Washington, would be carried out under the command of Vice Admiral W.H.P. Blandy, Commander of the joint Army-Navy task force. Against the peaceful backdrop of palm frond and pandanus, on this most "backward" of islands, the most progressive of centuries would write in one blinding stroke of disintegration the inner meaning of technological civilization: all matter is speed and flame. Well might the stone giants embedded in the solid earth of Easter Island feel...
...sharp wind roughed up the lake as eight shells pulled away. The Husky crew jumped into an early lead, stayed there until the three-quarters mark. Then Cornell, in the sheltered No.1 lane toward shore, stepped up its beat to 37. Ten powerful strokes pulled the Cornell shell into command; it held the lead against M.I.T.'s finish-line sprint. Washington's Huskies came in third. Wisconsin's heretics also...