Word: commander
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will have to ease back into full-time command...
...during the next two years, he was to lead American soldiers through some of the bloodiest fighting of World War II-the final defeat of the Germans' Afrika Korps, the invasion of Sicily, and, as commander of the U.S. First Army, the historic Normandy invasion. In 1945, after the Allies' near defeat at the Battle of the Bulge, Bradley led the sweep across the Rhine and the meeting of U.S. and Soviet troops at the Elbe. He was by then commander of the Twelfth Army Group, a mass of 1.3 million troops that formed the largest American force...
...many people ankle up to a bar and ask for a lemonade? Fools is a lemonade play. It has a homey flavor, and it is not altogether unrefreshing, but it lacks the comic belt to command Broadway's current tab of $25 a shot...
...When I tried to talk with them, they said, 'Keep your mouth shut, or we'll put a bullet through your head,' " Dutch Passenger Hendrik Seisen, 34, recalled later. The five skyjackers were identified as members of the Komando Jihad, or Holy War Command, a shadowy group of Muslim extremists dedicated to Iran-style Islamic revolution in Indonesia. Nervously brandishing machine guns, grenades and dynamite, they demanded $1.5 million in ransom and asylum for themselves and the 80 militants imprisoned by the government of Indonesian President Suharto...
Until now, manned spaceflight has been a most extravagant-some say most wasteful-enterprise. The towering Saturn rockets made only one-way passages Even the tiny "command ships" that splashed back to earth after their journeys to the moon never flew again. The shuttle orbiter has been painstakingly designed for use again and again, perhaps as many as 100 times. Not only will that make spaceflight less costly, it should encourage a whole range of activities, from launching and retrieving new types of satellites, including power plants that can snatch energy from the sun, to setting up permanent orbital observatories...