Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fateful hours. As always, U.S. and Japanese intelligence stations were in effect watching the Soviets as they watched the jumbo jet. The stations did so by recording the radio communications between the Soviet radar operators, probably located in northern Kamchatka, and their superiors along the military chain of command. It would be many hours later before those tapes would be examined and their significance determined...
...expected. The city was festooned with yellow ribbons hung out by Aquino supporters, and an estimated 20,000 of them, including his 75-year-old mother Aurora, had gathered at the airport to greet him. So had government security forces. The airport was cordoned off by the Aviation Security Command, AVSECOM, a special unit created to guarantee the security of the nation's airports. Two weeks earlier, AVSECOM had been transferred from the control of the airport authority to the personal command of an air force brigadier general. Inside the terminal, the passenger lobby was closed. Outside...
...cannibal stands for Europe, devouring its Jewish citizens. Such out-of-the-way images spring naturally from Ozick's prodigious erudition. This novel, like her earlier short stories and novellas (The Pagan Rabbi, Levitation, Bloodshed), is dense with metaphor, often drawn from the rich Jewish resources at her command: the Hebrew Bible, the Midrashim, or Jewish homilies, and the mystic texts of the Kabbalah. At the same time, as The Cannibal Galaxy demonstrates, she navigates the currents of other world cultures with the surehandedness of a true lover of ideas...
...capital. The advantage of this new "line in the sand" is that it is situated at the limit of the Libyans' air range. As a further indication of its determination, France appointed Brigadier General Jean Poli, 54, a career paratrooper with combat experience in Africa, to assume command of its forces in Chad...
Sometimes the moment of command is unforgettable, its recollection stirring. Lyndon Johnson told and retold the story of standing in the White House situation room and ordering Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara to send the Sixth Fleet toward the warring Middle East in 1967 to protect American interests. During such retellings, Johnson acted as if he could feel the great hulls shudder and begin to wheel around after he spoke a few quiet words. Oh what a lovely...