Word: commandant
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...also in 1969, whether at the command of his mother's genes, a primordial need to match his father, or a simple, old-fashioned lust for power, that Brown switched from backroom strategy to running his own campaign...
Tucked into President Ford's economic speech, the statement failed to command much attention at first. Yet the new program, under which traders are asked to seek Department of Agriculture approval of all sales abroad exceeding 50,000 tons of grain at one shot or 100,000 tons in a week, set off a wave of international jitters even as it aimed at holding down prices at home...
...touchdown gave Harvard an uncomfortable 14-6 lead at halftime, but at least there was the feeling that Harvard was taking command of the ballgame...
...ranks. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the second largest group in the P.L.O. after Fatah, withdrew from the P.L.O. executive council after bitterly attacking the moderate leadership of Yasser Arafat (see box). Another fedayeen group, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine -General Command, has also threatened to leave. The P.L.O. central council, which functions as a kind of parliamentary committee, was alarmed enough to convene an emergency meeting in Damascus last week; it formed a committee to try to persuade P.F.L.P. Leader George Habash to reconsider...
...last line of Something Happened is in a way very interesting: "Everyone seems pleased with the way I've taken command." And that's very interesting because it seems--if you know the character--he never feels secure in any situation. He has taken command, he's gotten promoted, he's doing very well. But his use of the word "seems" rather than "is pleased"" is an indication that he's insecure, he's not sure just how pleased everyone...