Word: commander
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...behalf of the United States, in which negotiations would be stressed over the role of voice, whether it be in Central America, the Middle East or East-West relations. Nowhere would this difference be more apparent than in the area of arms control, where Reagan's lack of command has been decisive in our inability to reach some kind of rapproachement with the Soviets. While third-rate bureauerats have haggled over the details of what acceptable proposals the United States would bring to the negotiating table on both intermediate and strategic missiles, Reagan has remained remote, ready only to issue...
...persuading Roosevelt to pursue a "Mediterranean strategy" of invading Italy rather than France, to Stalin's fury. But Churchill also begins to see how U.S. power is overtaking that of Britain. At one point he hopes that "our numbers justify increased representation for us in the high command." At another, he describes himself to Roosevelt, a little ruefully, as "your lieutenant...
...Myrta, Queen of the willis, Marie-Christine Mouis is a powerful, ruthless tyrant. She has at her command the entire corps de ballet, a force whose threat stems from their anonymity. The willis are terrifying in their immobility, their lack of individuality and their lack of pity. The corps does admirably with the almost impossible task of moving as one. They transform a group of 16 women into a single deathly, supernatural unit...
Lawrence's reputation is now so hallowed, his volatile life so mythologized, that anything he wrote is bound to command reverence or, at the very least, curiosity. Even those who dislike his work cannot, if they profess interest in 20th century tastes and ideas, afford to ignore...
...Brown commanded the forward play," he added, "not in the sense of overpowering command but in technical command, winning the ball 70 to 80 percent of the time...