Word: commandeering
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Unlike genres such as “Horror,” “Action,” or even “Adult,” “Sports” does not command an aisle all its own at the movie store. Nevertheless, the sports film constitutes a distinctive genre complete with all the requisite conventions and clichés. “The Express” is a fine exemplar of this class of movies—not for its quality, but for its representativeness. Director Gary Fleder and writer Charles Leavitt rehash...
Herritage, Maj. Allen America is assured by that, despite her claims, Sarah Palin is nowhere to be found in the chain of command over Air Force fighter jets...
...eggplant, neither of which they've ever tried pickling before, but are excited to try. Diners will also see pickled and preserved late-season produce year-round at three of Denver's most popular and critically praised restaurants, Mizuna, Luca D'Italia and Osteria Marco - all under the command of chef Frank Bonanno, whose own kitchen at home is healthily stocked with fruits and vegetables that he preserves with the help of his wife and young sons...
...Angeles. Compromise would be surrender. Rather than negotiate, he prepared for new battles. He now called himself "General." He christened his sprawling home "The Bivouac." He mounted a cannon on the hood of his limousine and made sure his chauffeur was prepared to repel, at his command, any enemy attacks. He modeled the paper's new printing plant on a fanciful vision of an impregnable fortress, complete with battlements, sentry boxes, and firing holes offering protected lines of fire at any mob that dared to storm his citadel...
...Pakistani military fired on their aircraft and were seeking an explanation, the word of the day at the Defense Department was "de-escalate." General David Petraeus, who has just stepped down as head of U.S. troops in Iraq and who in a month will become head of U.S. Central Command, which includes Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, says Pakistan's very existence is threatened by the turmoil along its border with Afghanistan. "Pakistan faces a threat that certainly seems to be an existential threat," he told reporters Thursday in Paris. Echoing a growing Pentagon refrain, Petraeus likened the enemy in western...