Word: commands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Back in China after Sun's death, Chiang shrewdly used Communist forces to help rout various warlords and establish his command over Peking in 1928. But in the course of the campaign, he turned on the Communists and eventually drove them into the remote hills of Kiangsi. From that day to this, the two have been at war. In 1936, when Chiang was kidnaped by a group of Nationalist officers who wanted to stop the anti-Communist campaign and unite against the Japanese invaders, he refused to bow. "If you want to shoot me," he said...
...case itself was routine. Specialist Four Henry Rollins, 24, a combat veteran serving his second tour in Viet Nam, was walking with a buddy who wore fatigues but no hat. The absence of the hat meant that Rollins' companion was, technically, in improper uniform. A command sergeant major hailed the G.I.s by shouting, "Hey, soldier!" The pair disregarded the call, which came from behind them. When the sergeant major caught up, a scuffle took place. Rollins decked the noncom. Charged with assaulting a superior and failing to obey an order, Rollins faced a sentence of six months at hard...
...widely thought to be defunct. Suddenly he is among us again, the schoolmaster's tone unmistakable, the detachable collar and know-all smile the same he wore when he disappeared several decades ago. How pleasant to become reacquainted with the Omniscient Novelist! He raps for attention and takes command, knowing that his characters cannot be trusted to display their twitches properly without his professional help and that readers need firm and expert guidance to follow what is going...
...rich but raw instant history, Oberdorfer devastatingly exposes the illusions about supposed enemy weaknesses that beset the American military command in 1968. Although U.S. officials in Saigon knew well in advance that a general offensive was being planned, they refused to believe that the North Vietnamese could mount one. The Communist general order of attack was intercepted and then published as a U.S. embassy press release-25 days before Tet began. Still, the order was officially dismissed as "internal propaganda" designed solely to inspire the Communist troops...
...dice. What the dice-ordained life gives Luke is a sense of euphoric irresponsibility and almost infinite possibilities. When the dice order Luke to jog up and down in his office clad in track shorts, the action merely enhances his swiftly growing reputation for eccentricity. But the command to role-play a homosexual means venturing into an unknown area of experience. Luke's awkward attempts to get picked up in a Greenwich Village bar are more raffishly droll than anyone might anticipate...