Word: commands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...faithful Republican Wheaton, the job was a reward for years of service to the Republican high command. Born in Utica, N.Y., Annie became a newshen for the Albany Knickerbocker Press, started out covering the women's page, eventually took over the legislative beat. In 1924 she moved to Washington as public-relations director for the League of Women Voters, became so involved and well known in political circles that ultimately she took charge of press relations for Mrs. Wendell Willkie, Mrs. Thomas E. Dewey (twice) and Mamie Eisenhower during their husbands' presidential campaigns...
...soldier he must not think of politics, but a genuine patriotism transcends the chain of command. Hitler is betraying the German cause, which for Rommel is vaguely identified with both military achievement and the preservation of home and family. He continues in his thankless military duty, but joins the conspiracy against Hitler's life, for which he eventually loses...
...Admissions Committee first admits the really intellectually gifted men who also command the character necessary to get top mrks. In the more difficult problem of selecting the lower half of the class, the Committee judges the applicant's promise greatly on subjective qualities of character, evaluating his future usefulness to his community...
...barracks somewhere in Scotland's dour landscape, a battalion of Highlanders is waging a pretty grim peace under the command of Colonel Jock Sinclair...
...character, but in the fact that he is only an "Acting Colonel." The War Office sends a man named Basil Barrow from London to take over the battalion. A "poor wee laddie," who is colder than Flora MacDonald,* he had spent the war in British intelligence. Which colonel will command the battalion-Jock or this Barrow boy? Jock is handicapped not only by a mistress but a prim Presbyterian daughter named Morag who is in love with a corporal-piper. The newcomer makes the fatal mistake of issuing regulations on how the Highland officers should perform their own wild dances...