Word: commandant
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...sense glorified first line officers; they are sergeants and lieutenants who worked their way up within the department. All joined the department as patrolmen. Now, Chafin has provided them with the means to improve their supervisory techniques through three-and one-week intensive courses at the nearby Babson Command Training Institute and at Pine Manor...
Given his background, it was natural that when named managing editor of TIME by Co-Founder Henry Luce, he regarded his job much like a military command. He was a great commander: tough, decisive, but always fair and humane. The managing editor of TIME is responsible for everything that appears in the magazine, for how the magazine shapes its picture of the world each week, and Alex relished that responsibility. His editing pencil raced across the copy, deleting, adding, transposing, scribbling questions in the margin. When the phone interrupted him, he would always answer it himself, avoiding the wasted word...
...soon after becoming head of the Mafia family once run by Joseph ("Joe Bananas") Bonanno, who now lives in Tucson, Ariz. Galante was immediately challenged by Aniello Dellacroce (translation: Little Lamb of the Cross), who is one of the Mob's most feared executioners and longtime second in command to Carlo Gambino. The wily Dellacroce, 63, paid his respects to Gambino's memory by letting the late capo's brother-in-law, Paul Castellano, remain titular head of the family, while Dellacroce was elevated to the Mafia's ruling commission last summer. He emerged...
...about every kind of talk before, some strong and some gentle. WilHam Tecumseh Sherman, the man who later marched to the sea, was married there in 1850. One day in 1861 at breakfast, Navy Captain David Glasgow Farragut ("Damn the torpedoes-full speed ahead!") was told he was to command the Union attack against New Orleans. And in a front room Robert E. Lee turned down command of the Union armies, a melancholy prelude to many visits by the anguished Lincoln, who used to prowl the area...
...Assad flew to the Iraqi capital for a reconciliation with President Ahmed Hassan Bakr. Syria and Iraq have been enemies for years, largely because their governments are run by feuding branches of the Baath (resurrection) party, a pan-Arab movement founded some 40 years ago. Iraq's ruling Revolutionary Command Council holds the hard-line view that the U.S. lacks the will or the power to put enough pressure on Israel to restore Arab rights in the occupied territories. Therefore, the Iraqis reason, the Arabs must do the job themselves. With Egypt committed to a peace agreement with Israel...