Word: command
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...hundreds who know and love him, few will feel that they command sufficient eloquence to do him honor. But the occasion must have its token, however inadequate, of so much more than can be said. May your life and happiness. Charles, long continue, as will your example forever in the tradition of Harvard College...
Pace's rise had been swift. A graduate of Princeton and Harvard Law School, he practiced law, joined the Air Forces in 1942, ended the war as a major in the Air Transport Command, then entered Government service as an attorney and got a job as assistant to the late Postmaster General, Robert Hannegan. Harry Truman spotted him. He was put in the Bureau of the Budget, and was made its director after only one year. As Washington could see, Pace was a comer...
Ufford and most of his teammates were in command when rain forced them to retire yesterday. Today's match with the College Grads will provide a good basis for comparison with the varsity if the Grad-varsity match which was rained out last Saturday is rescheduled...
...Ring. He began with a dramatic gesture. Before breakfast on his first day of command, he attacked singlehanded seven German planes and shot down two-a feat which won him the Congressional Medal of Honor...
...days he was the flotilla's Captain Bligh. The pilot, 27-year-old Captain William Cherry, was in command, and Rick-enbacker's friend, Colonel Hans Christian Adamson, 52, was the ranking officer. But the old warbird-dressed in a grey felt hat, business suit, shirt, tie and high-laced shoes-gave orders...