Word: commands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over 20 towns would indicate. However, it has always been the Glee Club's policy to aid in any way it can other singing enterprises at Harvard. It will be glad to offer anything in the way of music, help in finding conductors, advice, or "contacts" at its command. The Freshman glee Club, we feel, has been a very significant forward's step. It is sincerely hoped that in the face of a growing musical demand, new and adequate solutions, especially along House lines, will be achieved. J. Carter Brown '56 for the Executive Committee of the Harvard Glee Club
...Basil, who wears a D.F.C., A.F.C. and four D.S.O.s, is popular with flyers as a leader who would fly anything they could. Promoted to a big command early in World War II, he led his Blenheim bombers on one more mission, was shot down over France. He slipped away from the Germans three times, once killing three captors with a knife and the butt of a sentry's rifle, another time impersonating an Irish Republican Army man (and spouting Urdu when asked to show that he could speak Gaelic). He slept one night in an absent German general...
...postwar chief of fighter command NATO commander of air forces on the Central European front, he made professional friends by championing the promotion of more combat veterans to operational commands. But he also made enemies in the ministries by his criticism of the R.A.F.'s condition, and this year he was passed over for top R.A.F. jobs...
Soon after, on Dec. 29, 1170 four knights with a band of brigands approached Canterbury Cathedral. When the prior tried to bar the doors, the archbishop said: "The House of God should not be made a castle. I command you, under holy obedience, to open those doors!" In cold detail, Author Duggan describes how Becket, the trained warrior, suffered the fatal sword blows, and said, with his dying breath: "For the Holy Name of Jesus and the safety of His Church, I offer myself to death...