Word: commandingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...administration; his report on the judicial system was less favorable, more revealing. "Trials by jury" he said, "are farcical. The jury is always opposed to the government. . . " The customs receipts had increased, he reported, under U. S. supervision. Meanwhile at the Haitian border, Negro gendarmes under the command of U. S. onetime marines, waited in vain to arrest U. S. Senator King who announced he would not try to enter the country over President Borno's ban (TIME, March...
...expressed its inability to persuade President Borno to allow Senator King to enter on his tour of investigation. But, citizens argued, a U. S. High Commissioner passes judgment on President Borno's administration, the U. S. controls Haiti's customs, one-time U. S. marines command Haiti's gendarmerie...
Nationalist party at Hankow. The Committee is extremely potent, similar to the Communist Executive Committee which dominates Soviet Russia. When the Chinese committee assembled at Hankow, last week, it was the sense of the meeting that its members wished to relieve their Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek from his command-despite the capture of Shanghai by his troops. Such a knifing in the back by civilians of a successful commander would be almost unprecedented. Contradictory despatches, gave the impression that the Committee, although definitely on record as desiring to oust General Chiang and take control of the army itself...
...have sneered. "That guy in the box is wholly worthless when considered from a pitching stand-point!" Umpire Wilson halted the game; approached the offending athlete with firm tread and livid countenance; ordered him off the premises. Cobb made leisurely preparations to comply with the arbiter's command. He walked slowly to the players' bench. He drew a glass of ice cold water; drank it with time out between sips for breathing and contemplation; carefully replaced the glass. He noted that one shoe lace seemed insecurely knotted. This situation was remedied. He noted that the other lace...
...then out of the stillness of the Cambridge dawn came a report of twelve well aimed guns fired by twelve well maimed seniors under command of their Generals, singing...