Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Americans have stopped a President from a flagrant and clumsy attempt to obstruct an investigation against himself. "A President cannot command," Cox comments. "He can only persuade," But when opinion is the bound of his powers, he can still deceive. When another President contends our troops in Lebanon are at peace, so he can avoid the restraints of the War Powers Act; when he alludes to vague security threats in Grenada, but bars reporters and obstructs the public's critical vision of threat; when he distorts details and invents rationalizations for his policies, what effect can a firestorm have...
With Bird a one-man wrecking crew, the Celtics raced to a 37-34 lead after one period. They slowed down in the second quarter, but were in command, 59-48, at the half...
...calls for a two year "grace period," when a commission will supposedly find these people "useful" employment. But no one-seems clear on how this will happen. Will the commission create a new industry, and then re-train people so that they may command comparable salaries? That's ridiculous...
...that Holy Cross were a mockery team of snow, standing before the sun of fair Harvard, to melt itself away in water-drops! Good Crimson, great Crimson, and yet not greatly good, and if its ability be sterling yet in Division I-AA, let it command an upset hither straight, that it may show Harvard what pride it has since it is bankrupt of the Ivy lead...
...fired on the crowd, slaying more than a dozen people. In the resulting pandemonium, Bishop was led away at gunpoint. That night Radio Free Grenada announced the chilling news that he was dead. He had been executed along with five other officials by the "revolutionary armed forces" under the command of General Hudson Austin...