Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Said Salt: "We couldn't get below decks near the seat of the damage. We knew there were men down there, but we didn't know how many." After hours of unsuccessful fire fighting, Salt made the agonizing decision to abandon ship. Later he returned to his command by helicopter to view the damage. The Sheffield had refused to sink, but it remained an inferno. Recalled Salt: "The whole of the working area of the ship was a roaring mass of flames. We could see right down into the engine room...
...might have added that the style is cherished as well. It may be that the classical style comes as readily to these Russians as Shakespeare's poetry does to English actors. They dance with an easy amplitude, buoyant lightness and total technical command. There is no empty reverence. To American eyes, the Kirov Chopiniana (called Les Sylphides here) is startling because it is performed seemingly in a sunlit field instead of in a cathedral at midnight. Every Kirov dancer and musician knows a common musical idiom as well. The orchestra takes blithe liberties with tempos-flying allegros, subaqueous adagios...
...numbers--or lack thereof--suggest that even the student governments which appear impressive with their hefty budgets and multiple services may be moving simply out of physical inertia. These governments seem to command little mandate or draw much ire. A Brown referendum earlier this spring appears to have been the victim of just this. The vote--on whether a new form of government should be adopted--failed, but just 800 undergraduates on the 5300-student campus, or 14 percent, went to the polls. Cornell's Senate Speaker Susan L. Bisom summarizes her attitude toward student-government in terms generally shared...
Rotondi is considered at this point the leading candidate for the state's second-in-command executive post, along with Evelyn Murphy, who served as secretary of environmental affairs under former Gov. Michael S. Dukakis . Both seem to be aiming for the liberal delegates pledged to support Dukakis in his attempt to regain the governorship...
...type a copy of his/her program to the screen so I could see it. This, though not specifically part of the test, is an integral part of use, and spelled out quite well in a number of references that all people taking the test should have read (The command to type is "type," incidentally...