Word: commands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spoken by the biggest single language bloc in all India-roughly 100 million people, most of whom live in Uttar Pradesh, the sprawling area that has traditionally supplied New Delhi with most of its politicians. Hindi has remained largely unknown in southern India, which prides itself on its command of English...
...against Hoad in the finals, everything worked. When necessary, Ken found he could command the net himself. His long, flat drives flicked baseline chalk so often that overworked linesmen seemed to make more errors than he did. He pulled Hoad up with sneaky drop shots. He sent him scurrying toward the baseline after deft lobs that his beefy blond adversary seemed to have forgotten how to handle. He ran Lew Hoad off the slippery green court...
...empire reaching nearly one-third of Italy's 4,000,000 daily-newspaper readers; now their press has shriveled to a handful of struggling newspapers with a combined circulation of barely 530,000-less than half of what L'Unita's Sunday edition alone used to command. Since 1954 four papers have been forced to shut down, including Florence's // Nuovo Corriere, which gave up one month ago. Only L'Unita, Rome's // Paese and Paese Sera and Sicily's L'Ora di Palermo survive. Even they have lost from...
Warns Bill Martin: "Inflation leads to deflation and costs people their jobs. Our biggest bugaboo is unemployment." Eleusinian Mysteries. To lay this bogey, Martin is vigorously wielding the potent weapons at his command. Although every man, woman and child...
...edge of exhaustion in contrast to the spit-and-polish Nazis, who wear uniforms more appropriate to the parade ground than to combat. A similar imbalance flaws the plot. Smithers, though he has the courage to murder his captain, is earlier depicted as a man too irresolute to take command even when Eddie Albert is totally incapacitated by fear. The acting has the same black-and-white simplicity as the theme; it will be a long time, fortunately, before any movie displays such abject terror as that of Eddie Albert or such preposterous heroics as those of Jack Palance...