Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dozen homeless Chicagoans on buses to Washington. In the crowd, he agreed to correspond with other black men from Virginia, from Detroit, from San Francisco. "I had no idea it would be as magnificent as it was," says Lieut. Colonel Michael Nelson of Virginia. Trained to recognize chains of command, Nelson nevertheless felt the stirrings of rebellion: "I was out there for white Americans also. If I am the object of some people's scorn, then they need to see me in my physical being." Physical being countless times over, countless times empowered. "The brothers came home...
Maddux is not the hardest thrower in baseball, but he does have five pitches and total command of the strike zone. And as good as Maddux has become--he is about to win an unprecedented fourth straight Cy Young Award--he remains terribly unimpressed with himself. ''I just pitch," he says. The closest he'll come to a boast is this opinion expressed before the Series: "I like to think good pitching beats good hitting...
...stage a joint peacekeeping operation in Bosnia. Friday afternoon, Russian defense minister Pavel Grachev and his U.S. counterpart, Secretary of Defense William Perry, agreed on a force of "several thousand." But the two sides failed to resolve the central issue: whether the Russian troops will serve under NATO command. Yuri Zarakhovich reports from Moscow: "Yeltsin cannot afford placing Russian units under Western command -- not on the verge of the elections to the Duma, the lower house of the Russian Parliament, which will be held in an atmosphere of rapidly mounting and shrill anti-Western xenophobia...
...Although the two countries have agreed that the Russians will supply up to 2,000 soldiers to carry out support functions in Bosnia, Zarakhovich notes that politically it will be much more difficult for Yeltsin to commit combat troops. "Yeltsin cannot afford placing Russian units under Western command -- not on the verge of the elections to the Duma, the lower house of the Russian Parliament, which will be held in an atmosphere of rapidly mounting and shrill anti-Western xenophobia...
...case of Captain Everett Greene, charged with "unduly familiar personal relationships" with two female subordinates, is again forcing the Navy command to take a good hard look at its policy on sexual harassment. For one thing, Greene--who had been in line for an admiral's gold braid--is the third Navy captain in recent months to have his promotion derailed by charges of sexual chicanery: Captain Mark Rogers was dropped from the promotion list last April for using degrading sexual language, and Captain Thomas J. Flanagan was disciplined last month for an adulterous relationship with a female lieutenant...