Word: command
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...East Germany. "We cannot agree to that," says President Mikhail Gorbachev. "It is absolutely out of the question." The U.S.S.R. has made German neutrality an article of faith ever since Stalin's days, even though Soviet fears might be better calmed by a Germany answerable to a larger military command than standing...
...corruption and whose government is financially bankrupt. An ever present threat is the military, which has virtually ruled Haiti since Duvalier fled. At last week's inauguration, Major General Herard Abraham, the army Chief of Staff, saluted smartly and informed Trouillot, "Madame President, the armed forces are at your command." Although Abraham promised that his troops would stay in the barracks, Haitians were worried about the resumption of confrontations two weeks ago between citizens and soldiers, which have left at least 24 people dead...
...think it's important that clear-minded rational individuals be in a good position to defend the country," Coleman says. "I want to be trained to lead troops...to have a moral command...
...following two volumes, What the Light Was Like (1985) and Archaic Figure (1987), added to Clampitt's reputation and, perhaps too readily, the verbiage at which she can be a little too facile. With her gift for images, gigantic vocabulary and command of classical literature, she might have become a parody of the ornate Gerard Manley Hopkins. Westward, thankfully, reverses that tendency. It still helps to know that Mulciber is another name for the fire god Vulcan, and that punto in aria is a kind of lace. But these poems speak directly to the reader, as if the writer...
...home. Without fail, he will yell at a player on the screen to slide, say, two steps to his left or his man is going to drive past him for a basket. Then he yells at the image of the player for his failure to respond to his command. "The really funny thing," says Kit Mueller, who has attended many such sessions in the course of his education, "is that he will rewind the film, run it again and again, and yell the same thing each time...