Word: commandeered
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Carter delegates on the jammed floor within seven minutes. They had memorized the quickest routes through the nearly always clogged aisles to the alternate delegates seated in tiers above the floor. They had run through an imaginary roll call. They were in instant communication with the command trailers just off the convention floor. They were ready...
That they did. Now the hall was Kennedy blue again as the Senator's supporters displayed their feelings for him, and Carter delegates generously let their foes have one last hurrah. After the ovation died away, Kennedy took command. Nearly each of the text's 150 well-paced sentences drew shouts, laughter or applause. Time and again came the chants: "We want Ted! We want Teddy!" He cut them off by rolling on into his text...
...narrow trailer, he roll call over rules was under way. Four TV sets, all turned on, were stacked on top of one another in one corner, and he two men sat knee to knee watching closely. Carter Aides Jody Powell and Tim Kraft pushed their way into the rickety command center. Alabama was solid for Carter, but when California passed, Jordan thought he saw a strategy. "Kennedy is holding back the big states to make the others uneasy," he said. When Colorado lost a few Carter delegates, the group moved restlessly, but there was no real concern. Maine took...
Precisely on schedule one day last week, controllers at Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., sent an electronic command leaping across 164 million miles of space. With that, Viking Orbiter 1, which has been faithfully circling Mars once every 47½ hours for the past four years, expelled its last puff of steering gas. No longer maneuverable, its electrical systems silenced, the unmanned spacecraft will now slowly sink until it finally crashes into Mars some time after the year...
...surface, the answer seems simple: think of the lives that might have been saved if the attack on Pearl could have been averted. But against that certainty, those with the decisive force at their command must weigh the force of the unknown. It is entirely possible that World War II might have been still bloodier had the U.S. not been drawn into the fight by the Japanese assault. To this dilemma The Final Countdown makes a sensible, existentialist response. It is also fully aware of the ironies-the sheer comic puzzlement-implicit in a confrontation between a modern ship...