Word: commandant
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...office under Ramsay MacDonald as a minority government with support from the Liberals, had the political situation been so uncertain. It was possible that Queen Elizabeth could find herself in an extraordinarily awkward position for a modern constitutional monarch: deciding which party or parties would be best able to command support in the House of Commons and thus run the government. The Crown could even be dragged into an unseemly political row if the Tories tried to cling to power in a way that appeared unfair...
...marriage, no children; in Santa Monica, Calif. Lovelace, who earned $175 a day for her Throat role, has recently been negotiating contracts on the order of about $35,000 a week as a nightclub performer. Her most recent appearance in Las Vegas may lead to a six-year command performance; she was arraigned there on a drug possession charge...
...Secretary called the health insurance proposal "the major domestic issue for the president,"and said that "he will use all the resources at his command to try to get it through this year...
...which has been sky-rocketing throughout the last four years, will get worse, not better, and the point has now been reached where the standard of living is falling in Britain. Given that the Tories could not resort to their pre-election handout budget, the only way they could command support was to make the election into a battle about authority, the safety of Britain, and the survival of democracy...
Behind Cornell, Penn and Princeton each have ten points, but the Quakers are 5-5, while the Tigers are 5-6. Yale is now 3-6 in the league, and Brown is in command of the cellar with a 2-8 slate...