Word: commands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...skipper of carrier-based Fighting Squadron Three when he used an unorthodox two-plane gunnery maneuver of his own devising (the Thach Weave), which brought down 19 of 20 attacking Japanese "Betty" bombers above the Coral Sea. Similarly, Thach's new job calls for new tactics. He assumes command of an experimental unit called Task Force Alpha, which includes the carrier Valley Forge, eight destroyers, two hunter-killer submarines, planes, helicopters and blimps. His job: to weld them into a unit, put each element to new jobs in an effort to find goblins farther away and faster...
...truck column was bogged down by monsoon rains that caused landslides and washed away bridges. Another rebel column from Tapanuli was stopped dead by a government regiment that was supposed to switch over to the rebels but did not. Djakarta gleefully announced that the remnants of Nangolan's command were cornered on the eastern shore of Lake Toba...
...lined up for a pre-class contraband check. Among ruled-out items: knives, cigarettes, matches (combs-which make effective face-slashers with the teeth broken out-may be banned next). One student, 15-year-old Charles McDougle, was out of line, refused to obey Teacher Edward Carpenter's command to get back in. Then Carpenter put his hand on McDou-gle's shoulder, in what Principal Irving Boroff described later as "a brotherly, positive way." Student McDougle cried, "Nobody touches my clothes!", shoved Carpenter a little, swore a bit, then ran out of the school to stand bewildered...
House Ways & Means Committee Chairman Wilbur Mills, ordinarily a calm, slow-going Arkansan, got the word during hearings on reciprocal trade, rushed from the room, set up a telephone command post in a nearby office, alerted Speaker Sam Rayburn, huddled with other Democratic leaders, issued urgent orders for committee staffers to whip up a Democratic tax-cut bill the moment the White House moved. No matter what chips the Republican Administration threw onto the table against recession, the Democratic...
Drooping, knife-edge wings raised to flight, black exhaust streaming from six jet engines, the Strategic Air Command's B-47 No. 876 hurtled into the air from the runway at Hunter Air Force Base at Savannah one afternoon last week. Along with most of SAC's 308th Bomb Wing, No. 876 was headed off on a highly classified flight-Operation Snow Flurry-to one of the four SAC fields in North Africa...