Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...then there was the second debate. Reagan returned appearing unbefuddled and in minimal command of his faculties. Then he cracked a joke about his opponent and issues of his presidential competence were put to rest...
...question is whether, with another few months and another $40 million, the contras will be able to carry out the kind of military moves necessary to keep the support of a restless U.S. Even with consistent funding, predicts General John Galvin, head of the U.S. Southern Command, it will take at least several years for the contras to overthrow the Sandinistas...
...lonely men. For almost three decades, according to the original version, the Yorkshireman lived womanless, out of reach of the English language. In Coetzee's tale, the estrous Susan is in search of an abducted daughter. En route, she becomes the mistress of a ship's captain. Mutineers seize command and set her adrift in a small boat. It grinds ashore on the celebrated island, and within hours she is in the company of the white man and his mutilated servant, made tongueless by some cruel and nameless enemy...
...they are shrewd filmmakers who can give a skewed spin to a hoary genre. Compared with their new effort, though, Blood Simple was just a five-finger exercise with a knife spiked through the hand. To their old fascination with Sunbelt pathology, to their side-winding Steadicam and pristine command of screen space, the Coens have added a robust humor, a plot that keeps outwitting expectations and a surprising dollop of sympathy for their forlorn kidnapers...
...listings. The Army concedes that no spies were caught during the system's testing period; indeed, the Army has not had a major espionage case in recent years. "We're trying to maintain this record," says Lieut. Colonel Richard Holk, a spokesman for the Army's Intelligence and Security Command...