Word: commands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...standardization--of texts and assignments--will be no answer anyway unless the structuring and presentation of writing assignments is done with some ingenuity. If there's someone in a position to flex his influence sagaciously, he should certainly put (if necessary) a tyrannically gifted teacher of writing in command of Expos. Evans, a very respected scholar, does not teach in the course, as far as I know. Slingerland (who does) is, as far as I know, just another graduate student working on a thesis like many of the rest of us. Whoever appointed her to such a time-consuming...
...United States" and could even lead to "the destruction of the office of the President." His audience, consisting mainly of prosperous radio-and television-station owners and managers, applauded both his sharp replies and some of the tougher questions posed by broadcast newsmen. Firmly and aggressively in command of the situation, Nixon insisted that he was not trying to hide anything; he simply wanted to ensure that no future President would be surrounded by fearful advisers who are "yes men" too timid to give their boss "the variety of views he needs to make the right kind of decision...
Inevitably, the President is the focus, the essence of the crisis of the regime, the linchpin of its entire structure. The character of a regime always reflects and expresses the character of its leader. It is he who appoints his executive staff. If he does not explicitly command what his aides do and agents do, they in any event do what they sense and believe he wants them to do. The captain is responsible for his ship, the commander for his army. And Mr. Nixon has explicitly recognized this responsibility...
Last month, a young Japanese adventurer named Norio Suzuki went to Lubang to hunt down Onoda. When the two men finally met in a remote jungle clearing, the lieutenant laid down his condition: "Only in case my commanding officer rescinds my order in person will I surrender." Last weekend Suzuki returned to Lubang accompanied by former army Major Yoshimi Taniguchi, 63, a Kyushu bookseller who had been Onoda's last military superior. Dressed in a shapeless cap and a tattered uniform and clutching his old regulation infantry rifle, Onoda stood at attention as Taniguchi read out an Imperial Army...
...envied her fertility. They themselves could only feel a love that was laden with hate and scorn; thus they were impotent or sterile. Her second pronouncement is harsher, but contained in an incongruously mild aside. Speaking of her husband Francesco, who by the end of the book had wrested command of the troupe from Flaminio Scala, she commented...