Word: commandants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fortunate that he was always right in his criticism, for he wrote with an authoritarian voice that could have sounded smart-aleck were he ever a shade off target. At times he seems to reach out from the page, shake the reader by the collar, and command "Like It!" with dictums like "these lines are so good that even admiration feels like insolence, and one is ashamed of anything one can find to say about them...
...Clark Daugherty of Rockwell Manufacturing Co., "but it won't help unless federal spending is cut." The difficulty about wielding an ax on the budget, noted Chairman Roger Blough of U.S. Steel Corp. last week, is that "nobody has come forward with a list of priorities that would command a consensus." Blough's somewhat idealistic recommendation: political support for "elected officials who vote to cut government spending even if this affects our own pet projects and communities...
Despite his admiration of Warren, whom he extravagantly calls "the greatest Chief Justice after John Marshall," Harvard Law Professor Archibald Cox argues that this lack is an important failing. Only by virtue of how well the court explains itself can it command consent. Its prestige comes "from the belief that the major influence in judicial decisions is not fiat but principles which bind the judges and apply consistently among all men." In addition, lack of precision leads to confusion, and confusion leads to the necessity of reinterpretation. Though the Warren court is by no means the first to spend time...
...bombing and strafing by U.S. jets and helicopters zooming in to aid the defenders, the headquarters soon appeared doomed. Punching through the wire, the Viet Cong raced from building to building, setting each afire. They silenced the bunkers one by one, dropping grenades through their slits. Soon only the command bunker and one other were still firing back, and in the command bunker Captain Tran Minh Cong and his twelve men were running out of ammunition. So Captain Cong radioed for Vietnamese army artillery to zero right in on his bunker. The artillerymen were reluctant to do so at first...
...surprise of U.S. commanders, the Viet Cong stayed around despite their losses. Next night the fighting resumed, in perhaps as weird a contact as either side has made in the war. About 8 p.m. a group of men walked through a U.S. company's command post, one of them with a flashlight in his hand. "Douse that light," snarled a U.S. sergeant major, at the same time noticing that the offender was wearing black pajamas and carrying a Chinese AK-47 gun. But the group kept right on walking, and it was several startled seconds before everybody started firing...