Word: commands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...although the ball was in the URI end for nearly all of the final stanza, it was not until the waning moments of the game that the ball finally trickled into the nets for the winning score. With just 4:49 left in regulation play, and Harvard in complete command, a head shot by Demetrio Mens on an assist by Emmanuel Ekama dribbled across the goal line. The URI goalie made a diving save, but the play was whistled dead by the referee for the score...
...Filipinos to suspend judgment, at least temporarily, in order to give the President a chance to work things out. If?and it is a very big if ?Marcos can carry out his promised reforms, get the economy moving and provide an honest administration, he will continue to command the support of most Filipinos. But whether the people like it or not, the Philippines for the foreseeable future will continue under a dictatorship that is somewhat more stringent than that of Lee Kuan Yew in Singapore but less oppressive than that of Chung Hee Park in South Korea...
...heart attack while landing at Ardmore, Okla., in 1966; on at least 17 other occasions in the past ten years, air-crew illness has been responsible for harmless, though potentially serious mishaps and near misses. To minimize the possibility of airborne illness, the Federal Aviation Administration requires all U.S. command pilots to undergo regular physical examinations every six months. Few doubt that the examinations, which include annual electrocardiograms for all pilots over 40, are necessary. But a growing number of doctors and FAA officials now question if they are stringent enough...
Cronin had nowhere near the monetary resources that Kerry could command, and he spent only about 40 per cent ($100,000) of what his opponent spent. His relative frugality strengthened his believability as a candidate who had the interests of the District in mind and ultimately played an important role in his upset victory...
...sometimes as intense and attention-riveting as listening to records through earphones; too often it was more a nightmarish stew of French horns sounding like tubas, trumpets like cornets, strings like wood saws. It did not help, of course, that Revenaugh had to surrender the conductor's usual command over tone and blending to the man at the sound console...