Word: commander
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...note, the elder Isaacs stated: "We are all profoundly humiliated and endangered by what is going on in Arkansas and Virginia and throughout the South wherever the diehard racists are in command...
...congressional liaison man in the War Department. There, in the early 1930s, he met and became a favorite companion of Major Dwight Eisenhower, working just down the corridor in the office of Chief of Staff Douglas Mac-Arthur. In 1938 Persons breezed through the Army's Command and General Staff School. During World War II, he moved up to major general, was the Army's top lobbyist on Capitol Hill, did his job so well that Chief of Staff George Marshall refused Ike's request for Persons' services during the North African campaign. "There...
Almost unnoticed, the U.S. has been negotiating to surrender five of its most important overseas airbases: the Strategic Air Command's "frontline" B-47 fields (and a naval air station) in Morocco. Reason for the deal is twofold: 1) nationalist pressure in newly independent Morocco for withdrawal of all foreign forces, U.S. as well as French and Spanish; 2) U.S. judgment that in the near future the Moroccan bomber fields will have lost their present strategic value...
...context "of supreme urgency and often of acute danger" in which a passage was composed, but also the context of the modern readers' sensibilities. This leads him to some surprising alterations. In the King James passage describing the raising of Lazarus, for instance, Martha protests Christ's command to open the tomb with the words: "Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been dead four days." Phillips' version: "But Lord," said Martha, "he has been dead four days. By this time he will be decaying...
Died. Kenneth Powers Williams, 71, military historian, longtime (1909-58) teacher of mathematics at Indiana University; author of the multi-volume Lincoln Finds a General (TIME, Jan. 2, 1950; Nov. 10, 1952), probably the soundest clearest history of the Northern Command in the Civil War ever written; of cancer; in Bloomington...