Word: commandism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Secretary. "I, in my mind, am sure that Sergeant McKeon never meant to harm his men ... I am convinced that a punitive separation from the service is not necessary . . . nor would the interests of the Marine Corps be served. [But] retention of McKeon as a noncommissioned officer with command authority [could not] be justly rationalized on the theory that his tragic failure to meet command responsibility constituted merely a single lapse in his performance of duty. One lapse . . . is just one lapse too many . . . I have restored to Sergeant McKeon the opportunity to build for himself a useful and honorable...
...fatal July 25 Andrea Doria was steaming westbound at 23 knots from Genoa to New York when, about 3 p.m., some 175 miles off Nantucket, she ran into thick fog, testified Captain Calamai. He personally took command of the bridge, cut speed to 21.8 knots, ordered automatic fog warnings sounded at 1½-minute intervals (audible at a distance of four miles). Around 8 p.m. his second and third mates came on watch, joining him on the bridge. He hung closely within a few degrees of the westbound lane of Track Charlie, the "informal" sea lane marked...
...means the last word on the collision. But when the time came to weigh evidence in the cases involving $40 million in lawsuits, it would be a hard word to ignore because of his impressive manner and his solid record of 20 years of ocean-going command without mishap prior to the collision with Stockholm...
...respectful crowd of high-ranking airmen and their wives stood by to greet the Vulcan's distinguished crew of war heroes. The pilot was Squadron Leader Donald Howard, D.F.C., and his copilot was none other than Air Marshal Sir Harry Broadhurst, chief of Britain's Bomber Command. Lady Broadhurst waited with their four-year-old daughter on the airport apron...
Silent on her peak outside London town, blonde, swivel-hipped Marilyn Monroe, who is scheduled to meet Queen Elizabeth at the annual "command performance" later this month, did not seem displeased when told that M-G-M is "very interested" in having her star in the studio's planned film version of Feodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov. Although nobody would take Marilyn seriously when she said a couple of years ago that she wanted to play Grushenka,*M-G-M said last week, "The part is hers, if she doesn't want half the studio...