Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...each of the three Apollo 10 astronauts with toy replicas of Snoopy, the lop-eared dog of derring-do from his comic strip "Peanuts." The hound, along with another of Schulz's characters, Charlie Brown, achieved celestial fame as the code names of the Apollo lunar module and command ship. Schulz naturally wanted to meet the astronauts who had adopted his creations; so they were introduced and exchanged gifts. Schulz received a photo of the space-traveling Snoopy making an inverted rendezvous with Charlie Brown. The inscription: "Snoopy never did know which end was up anyway." Said Schulz: "What...
...still slices the air magisterially, and his resonant voice has lost little of its oratorical control. The Bible still hangs open in his big left hand as he moves back from the lectern, then up to it again. The message is as sternly fundamental as ever: "God says I command you to repent." Still, something was missing last week as Graham crusaded in Manhattan's new Madison Square Garden. Time and repetition have mellowed the fervor and intensity with which America's most successful evangelist once virtually pried sinners out of their seats to come forward and give...
...that the N.L.F. could take part. The more immediate problem is how the elections are to be brought about. The Communists demand Thieu's departure from power, or at least a coalition, even before elections are held. They imply that if elections took place with Thieu in command, he would have an enormous advantage at the polls, regardless of any kind of international supervision that might be devised. The U.S., in turn, argues that forcing Thieu into a coalition now, let alone forcing him out of office, would hopelessly prejudge the polling and damage his chances of proving himself...
Even more frustrating for general officers is the fact that they do not even have official control of the troops under their command. West Germany has no operational general staff, and all its strategic plans and commands come from NATO headquarters in Belgium. Unlike other NATO powers, which allot part of their armed forces to NATO but keep command of the remainder, every single West German combat unit is under NATO command. Although a number of West German officers are mixed in with other allied officers in the NATO command structure, in practical terms the Bundeswehr is an extension...
From this hypothesis, Sociologist Tiger leaps nimbly-perhaps too nimbly -to some contemporary conclusions. The hunter is still in command; only the hunt has changed. "When a community deals with its most vital problems," Tiger writes, "when statements of internal and external importance are made, when-particularly in warfare -decisive actions must be taken, at these times, females do not participate. The public forum is a male forum...