Word: commander
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Colonel Loughlin, who calls himself a "bird colonel foot soldier," joined the 81st (Wildcat) Infantry Division in 1917, saw action a few weeks before the Armistice. He was retired. because of age (60) in 1942, later recalled to command a P.W. camp in Jackson, Miss, until he retired for good...
...confiscated. But, says Professor von Blanckenhagen, scholarship is universal. "In spite of national difference, what good scholars have in common is much more important than the differences in their cultural background." He feels himself very much of an American, and he says, though he is overly modest about his command of the language, that he finds English a happier means to express his thoughts than his native German. "English forces one into exact and disciplined thought and German is very prone to cloudy thinking...
...French political weakness are deep. Localism, distrust of authority, political cynicism, and historical issues (like clerical education) are imbedded in the French mind. These attitudes will not change until structural revisions in the Republic force them to. French politics must cease to be the national sport, and must command the serious and constructive attention of parliamentarians and electorate alike...
...from the University of Florida library that the university has had to put the school on a quota. One boy is working 25 hours a week after hours to earn enough money to build his own laboratory. Another boy got limited security clearance from the Air Research and Development Command so that he can work during the summer testing rocket fuels at the missile base...
...faith and worship. Such words as 'heathen,' 'idolatry,' 'superstition.' are used more often as smear words or in derision than in their legitimate meanings. They are words we hurl at others; seldom do we apply them to ourselves. Yet every man should command respect in the moment when he bows before his god. We may believe that his conception of the Divine lacks valuable, even essential, elements. His forms of worship may appear to us bizarre, sometimes repellent. But in that moment of prayer, every man is at his best...