Word: commandeered
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...16th century. Nowadays, Central America is once again the land of the smoking gun. It is torn by struggle and threatened by a chain reaction of upheavals that could have far-reaching repercussions throughout the Americas. Warns Lieut. General Wallace Nutting, senior officer of the U.S. Southern Command: "All of Central America could very easily radicalize, and a very substantial wedge would be driven between north and south...
...political powers of the presidency are his to command. He faces no single challenger popular enough to rally widespread support. His carefully selected delegates will form a clear and comfortable majority at his party's convention. His aides control the convention machinery. Yet despite all that, one astonishing fact remained: only a week before the Democratic National Convention assembles in New York City's Madison Square Garden, Jimmy Carter was a President under siege who could not be certain that he would be renominated by his party...
Erwartung's nightmare ambiguities can have a haunting power. The Santa Fe production makes them rather tame, except in the astringent sonorities arising from the orchestra pit. Soprano Nancy Shade, as the woman, has command of Schoenberg's difficult idiom, but her voice lacks the dramatic weight for a role that, as Musicologist Wilfrid Mellers describes it, is essentially "Isolde in nervous disintegration...
...have not had a proper capability for a limited response. The directive will permit us to substantially increase intelligence satellites and command and controls." Huntington said, adding that the decision was the outcome of a detailed three-year study and did not represent a political reelection ploy...
...technical level, the Stones are better than ever. Jagger has acquired wonderful command voice; he sings with nuance and a remarkable adaptability to different lyrics and styles. He is our Sinatra. Watts now reigns as undisputed King of the Skins; his jazz- and reggae-influenced drumming is the band's gasohol. Watts singlehandedly saves at least two songs on the album from mediocrity, and lifts one to brilliance. The bass playing is at times superb, and probably Ron Wood's; elsewhere it is merely workmanlike, and probably Bill Wyman's. Over the years the Stones have acquired a nonpareil corps...