Word: commands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...collected the ears of the dead and otherwise mutilated corpses. Perhaps with the end in sight, there is some impulse to introduce a belated battlefield politesse. The new policy of helicoptering in a chaplain to hold funerals for the enemy took effect when Brigadier General James F. Hamlet assumed command of the division's 3rd Brigade. Said one brigade officer: "The general feels it is the humane thing...
...usually takes prodigious effort, great motivation and many extra years for women to break into the command echelons of business. Often women have to start their own companies to get there at all. Here are four examples of women who have made...
...campuses, the paperback Satanic Bible by Church of Satan Founder Anton La Vey is outselling The Holy Bible. In New Jersey last year, a young man of 20 was drowned, allegedly by his friends and at his request, because he believed that a violent end would put him in command of 40 legions of demons...
...gifts after he had finished Leafstorm. He has acknowledged that reading Faulkner and making a pilgrimage through Yoknapatawpha country helped him to enrich his own private literary property and see its mythic possibilities. At any rate he developed from a cautious, limited craftsman into a prodigal fabulist with total command in his protean imagination...
...Wang keeps hurrying his guests on to see more. First comes a chemistry class. Mao looks down from the wall again. The students sit like robots listening to the teacher talk about analyzing the content of calcium. They recite like soldiers, turning to their books and back again on command, as if executing close-order drill. Nobody slouches, no eyes stray from the teacher to the guests; there is no unnecessary noise. It is like a machine, but the harshness of the moment is softened by the kids' faces. They are kind, eager, respectful, cheerful, warm. There...