Word: commanded
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...weeks prior to the start of the Radcliffe Science Alliance, we nervously wondered how we had enlisted ourselves for an extra week of academia before beginning college in September. We pictured ourselves stranded amongst girl geniuses competing over how many digits of pi they could recite on command. But upon our arrival in Cambridge, we found, instead, 38 girls as nervous as ourselves, all unsure of the week, as well as the years, ahead of them...
...Drum (heck, I haven't even seen the movie), but it was my understanding that he was one of the best living writers and that his Nobel Prize for literature was long overdue. Maybe so, but his Nobel Lecture strikes me as the sort of thing that wouldn't command much attention if delivered from any other venue...
...father had held 20 years before, as the Navy's liaison to the Senate. In this last role, the road forked. Even as he took that job, it was clear that his Navy career was stalled. His war injuries were still bad enough to rule out a sea command. It had taken years of physical therapy for him to be able to bend his knee again, and to this day he can't raise either arm above his head. Though his father and grandfather had been the only father-and-son four-star admirals in U.S. history, McCain was passed...
...Then comes the next command: Take the mask...
Some critics have declared Sen. John S. McCain (R-Ariz.) the winner of the debate, perhaps because he alone refused to hit Bush below the belt and instead specifically articulated his ideas. McCain also demonstrated a strong command of the issues with detailed proposals and considered positions. Bush, on the other hand, failed to defend adequately his tax cut under attacks from Forbes and others. Most of the other candidates failed to distinguish themselves from the crowd, despite a valiant effort from Alan L. Keyes...