Word: commandant
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...familiar Mafia lore that has become commonplace knowledge through movies and fiction is essentially true. All the made men are bound by a loyalty oath of blood and fire. They are divided into regimes, or squads, under the command of caporegimes, or lieutenants, who in turn take their orders from the clan's dons. Years ago, the don was both a prince of crime and social arbiter among Italians in his territory. But the breakup of the old Italian neighborhoods has stripped away his social functions?and any romanticism that might have surrounded him. Today he is no more than...
...stories was no different from stitching leather to make shoes. His real career, he maintained, was in the post office, where he worked for 33 years, rising from clerk to executive. (It was Trollope who introduced the street-corner mailbox.) Indeed, his failure finally to become the second in command, the highest post he could hope to achieve, was more galling to him than the barbs of all the literary critics in London...
When the German settlement rebuffs the French attack and threatens retaliation, this fragile social fabric disintegrates amid bluster, cowardice, hoarding and panic. Only one man keeps his head: a quiet, boyish geographer (Jacques Spiesser) who reveals an unsuspected flair for command. He supersedes the decent but feckless resident sergeant (Jean Carmet) and brilliantly mobilizes the local garrison...
...leader of this party is a gentle spirit, dignified and impractical. To him there is nothing ridiculous in the sight of his men toiling along treacherous trails, weighted down by armor, struggling to transport an entirely useless cannon. He has brought his wife with him and his second in command's daughter. What begins as an obviously dangerous journey soon turns into a manifestly self-destructive one. The rafts built to navigate the river are inadequate to its currents. And then, of course, there are the Indians, always in the shadows, picking off stragglers. But the worst danger derives...
...Robert Redford can command $1 million for one film, Fred Lynn is certainly worth $200,000 for 162 games. Now that the players have won a measure of bargaining power and can exert pressure upon the owners, they are demanding and finally receiving a share of the profits...