Word: commander
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just two days before the anniversary ceremonies were held last week, yet another U.S. space failure occurred: the main engine of a $30 million Delta rocket carrying a $57.5 million weather satellite shut down just 71 seconds after lift-off from Cape Canaveral. The Delta was destroyed by ground command. "We like to feel we're infallible," Shuttle Astronaut Bob ) Crippen told the subdued workers at the cape. "We're not. We proved that on Jan. 28 and underscored it this past Saturday...
...bridge marking the starting line at Lake Quinsigamond in Worchester, Mass., an ominous voice will begin to count down over the loudspeakers to the six assembled freshman lightweight crews, "FIVE, FOUR, THREE,"--each number echoing several times over the surface of the water. When the starter gives the command "ROW", the finals of the 41st annual E.A.R.C Regatta--better known as the Eastern Sprints--will be under...
...send the cadets on field training exercisesto Fort Devens [in Ayer, Mass.] once a semesterwhere they learn about leadership and teamwork inland navigation, patrolling, and competitiveexercise," Welch says. "Seniors run the wholeorganization, they lead and command the cadetbatallions...
...previously implied, but professed ignorance of any systematic extermination of Yugoslav partisans or the removal of Greek Jews to death camps. Last week, at the National Archives in Washington, an army journal was unearthed in which Waldheim had actually noted orders from the German High Command to eliminate partisans. Yet the more international outrage mounted, the more Austrians defiantly rallied behind their native son. That sent him ahead of Steyrer in the polls...
...addition, the report says the concentration has shown a tendency to emphasize literary theory at the expense of literary history. This shortcoming has left some students with the feeling "that they do not have a command of a specific `body of knowledge,'" the report says...