Word: command
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...knock you dead by the mere aura of unself-conscious authority that they projected. I think that what is happening with the Beatles is that they are beginning to achieve, in a rock context, that exact amalgam of easy natural strength and sure-footed integrity born of a complete command over the medium. (Exciting to think that, before our eyes, the Beatles are doing it all over again-taking rock and roll up to yet another higher plane of cultural and artistic value.) The paramount position that the Beatles hold then in the rock world comes primarily from their unmatched...
...conclusions whenever issues of principle arose. All of us who lived through the agonies of the events of last April have been made poignantly aware of the fragility of the University, and we share a desire to do everything in our power to build a community which will command the loyalty of faculty, students, and administration, as well as of the alumni and the governing boards...
Tall, strawberry blonde, with a towering command of the stage, she portrayed Lucia as a strong-willed girl who fights her tormentors every note of the way. Helped by an absolutely uncut version of Donizetti's score, she progressed from matter-of-fact girlishness through angry submission to a raging, cataclysmic Mad Scene...
That is nearly as high as hens (.9), which forge their chains of command in a way that has become a behavioral cliché-the pecking order. But it was accomplished in considerably less time than chickens normally take. The applications seem endless: say, in replenishing command vacancies in governments and armies, in selecting the properly submissive evening companion from a cocktail-party crowd or in determining ahead of time whether you or your opponent is likely to have the upper hand in a debate...
...among the first of a rapidly growing number of former professional officers who have become top civilian executives in Israel. Since the Six-Day War, nearly 100 former generals and colonels have taken command positions in private or government-owned industry, banking, utilities, commerce and transportation. Often, they are recruited to executive suites a year or more before they pick up their first pension check, and can choose among a dozen offers...