Word: commander
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Belgian people from starvation in World War I. And it was in his role as a house guest even more than in his role of presidential representative that Herbert Hoover was able, as he delivered a formal Fourth of July address in the Grand Auditorium that night, to command attention and respect with a sentence: "I would not be your friend if I did not speak frankly...
After a ho-hum year on an alien job-inspecting tropical construction work-Colonel John Nickerson, court-martialed for leaking Army rocket secrets to newsmen (TIME, July 8, 1957) heard the good news: restoration of his military command functions, assignment to a post right down his alley, as ordnance officer of the Caribbean Command with headquarters in the Panama Canal Zone...
...Almighty God touched me with His little finger," wrote Giacomo Puccini, "and said: 'Write for the theater . . .' I have obeyed the supreme command...
Here, the geneticists now believe, lies the high command of growth and reproduction. Double-helix DNA molecules, thousands of turns long and arranged by thousands in each chromosome, can carry a vast amount of coded information. They may very likely carry enough to determine whether a fertilized egg grows into a clam or an elephant. When chromosomes replicate during cell division, the DNA molecules that they contain presumably replicate...
Brigadier General Donald W. Saunders, 45, commander of the Strategic Air Command's 57th Air Division...