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Word: commands (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...King's advisers, suspecting foul play, defect to France before Hubert confesses to John that Arthur lives. When Arthur dies trying to escape, the nobles find his body outside the city gate and grow more incensed. The French invade England under the Dauphin's command, only to be beaten back. The nobles find it expedient to return to John's fold when they learn the Dauphin plans to kill them. By now the King is a broken man who dies of poison, the ever-loyal Phillip the Bastard by his side...

Author: By Elizabeth H. Wiltshire, | Title: A Shakespearean Soap Opera | 11/8/1979 | See Source »

...elected Democratic whip, making him second in command to Majority Leader Mike Mansfield. In the aftermath of Chappaquiddick, however, Kennedy became distracted, neglected the job and left too many of his responsibilities to the No. 3 Democratic leader, Robert Byrd of West Virginia. Byrd did the work so well that he upset Kennedy for the post...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Kennedy Challenge | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

...want 336 British-designed, vertical-takeoff Harrier attack planes (cost: $5.7 billion), plus 33 heavy-lift and attack helicopters ($400 million for the first year's production). Bringing Marine Corps ammunition stockpiles up to a level that could sustain combat operations would cost an extra $1.5 billion; improving battlefield command systems would run $400 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Price of Power | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

Until 1946 she was a Roman Catholic teaching nun in India, devout, dynamic, but apparently otherwise unexceptional. Then, on a train ride to Darjeeling, she felt the touch of a divine command. Its message: she must quit her cloistered existence and plunge into Calcutta's clamorous slums to care for "the poorest of the poor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nobel Prizes: I Accept in the Name of the Poor | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

...father was born to a radical heritage and not expected to stray. After writing several appreciative pieces about avant-garde writers, he took command of Commentary in 1960 and steered it leftward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Radical Retreat | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

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