Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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They mask and they are loud, never sentimental and wimpy. They command their characters and the stage with farcial abandon. Yenta Pesha (Sokol) throws giant plastic pickles at her husband, Gronam Ox (Levin), whenever be does something stupid. She wags her tongue, spits and gags attempting some of the more delicate words of the Yiddish language, and her flexible face will always tell you what she's (not) thinking even if her words do not. In other words, she knows how to put on a show; it has little to do with drama, at least the type proffered...
...unlikely that America's saltiest president had much to do with Radcliffe College. But today, a week before University of Minnesota professor Barbara J. Nelson assumes the newly-created post of second-in-command and presidential stand-in at Harvard's appendix, it's worth remembering Johnson's words...
With Clinton's approval in hand, Jonassaint signed the agreement. The Defense Minister quit on the spot. Cedras sat mute. Then Powell asked him point-blank if he would accept the agreement. Cedras stood erect and pledged his word of honor that he would "obey the command of my president...
...added insult of sharing their accommodations with U.S. soldiers. On Friday, while Haitian troopers played dominoes on one end of their balcony at the capital's general quarters, G.I.s on the other end snoozed in the afternoon heat. "How do I feel?" asked a member of the Haitian high command. "That's a delicate question." He glanced away for a long time, then simply looked back at his guest. The silence underscored his humiliation...
...overdue electricity bills hadn't been paid, so Moscow's regional power authority cut off the electricity -- to the central command of Russia's strategic nuclear missile forces. The headquarters, in a Moscow suburb, was forced to switch to a backup generator; its overdue bill totaled almost $1 million. An official statement said that "the military preparedness of the strategic missile forces was not impaired and is, as always, at the necessary level." But later in the week, nuclear submarine-building plants in the Arctic city of Severodvinsk were forced to shut down when the local power company...