Word: commands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Radcliffe junior varsity had little trouble in its race, taking command at the start and whipping the Terrier J.V.'s by eight seats...
...true. Cambridge barely seems to have enough walls, cornerstones or gates to support the inscriptions people passing through leave behind. Here four citizens were killed by British soldiers. There Washington took command of the Continental Army. Over in that church the organ pipes were melted down for bullets. History has left its graffiti throughout the town...
...modulating European tradition into a distinctively South American voice, giving South American writers a new self-confidence. While he remains a grand old anti-fascist liberal, most writers of subsequent generations have been more or less socialist. Some, like Pablo Neruda, put their life and art wholly at the command of the movement they support; some, like Jose Lezama Lima in Cuba, have differed with the revolutionists after giving them initial support; some, like Garcia Marquez, have kept away from direct political action yet still have served revolution in their writing...
...between 1930 and 1955. Avery worked in the opposing techniques of woodcut and drypoint: in drypoint, the artist cuts into copper the line he wants to print, while in a woodcut he digs out what he doesn't. The results in each style are very different, but Avery has command of both techniques. He controls his line to model and shade, indicating the subtleties of mass and movement...
Credit for the attack on Qiryat Shemona was claimed by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command-a small, radical and secretive offshoot of George Habash's P.F.L.P. Threatening "more revolutionary suicide missions" inside Israel, a spokesman for the Command told a news conference in Beirut that "this campaign is aimed at blocking an Arab-Israeli peace settlement." In spite of the potentially appalling consequences, the raid was applauded in much of the Arab world. The Palestine Liberation Organization, headed by Yasser Arafat, praised the action for carrying the battle to "the enemy...