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Word: commands (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...further complicate matters, many players feel that Frank Guerra, a three year bench-warmer, is the best quarterback, and Restic himself feels that sophomore Jim Stoekel has the best command of the offensive, but lacks experience...

Author: By Evan W. Thomas, | Title: On the Bench | 10/8/1971 | See Source »

Penn Takes Command...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Penn Wallops Brown, 6-1 | 10/6/1971 | See Source »

Penn's Tom Liebermann tied the game six minutes later with a penalty shot. Four minutes after that, the Quakers' Bob Watkins intercepted a clearing pass and scored to put Penn in command...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Penn Wallops Brown, 6-1 | 10/6/1971 | See Source »

...making) have from the start portrayed Calley as a half-mad, sub-normal robot, a kill-crazed misfit who took out all the frustrations of a life of failure and rejection on the people of one South Vietnamese hamlet. News accounts have played up Calley's lack of command ability, his feelings of inferiority, the supposed unfitness of his whole platoon. The campaign to make Calley into stupid sub-human reached its absurd climax three weeks ago in an essay by William Styron in the New York Times Book Review in which Styron compares Calley to Eichmann, and with this...

Author: By Garrett Epps, | Title: Rusty Calley: His Follies and Fortunes | 10/5/1971 | See Source »

...Year-by Jewish reckoning the 5,732nd since the creation of the world-and the congregation had been crowding into Manhattan's new Lincoln Square Synagogue since shortly after sunrise. Now Rabbi Steven Riskin and the cantor huddled together. "Tekiah," intoned the rabbi softly, using the Hebrew command for a long blast on the shofar. The cantor tensed his cheeks and raised the ram's horn to sound the melancholy note, the first of a hundred blasts that began the High Holy Days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Sound of the Shofar | 10/4/1971 | See Source »

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