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Word: commandeered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1980
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Anderson, among the most powerful players on the pro circuit, was out-maneuvered by controlled volleys and well-disguised winners, the tactics Desaulniers used to such success to wreck his college opponents. Continually thrown off-balance and forced to anticipate too soon, Anderson could not threaten Desaulniers' command of the match at any point...

Author: By Tiina M. Bougas, | Title: Desaulniers Cops Boston Open Title | 11/17/1980 | See Source »

...very tolerant person," he says--his letters fulminate against what he terms the hypocrisy of preachers like Moral Majority leader Jerry Falwell. And Ratliff is one adversary that knows his Scripture: "To right wing evangelicals, Jesus says, 'You call me Lord but do not the things I command...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SISTER/BRO. AMERICANS-- | 11/17/1980 | See Source »

...another round in the thermonuclear race to Armageddon, favors merciful abortion to prevent a tide of the unwanted from filling welfare rolls, prison cells and death rows to the electric chair. To right wing evangelicals Jesus says, "You call me Lord but do not the things I command you." Henry Ratliff...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SISTER/BRO. AMERICANS-- | 11/17/1980 | See Source »

SoHo took command early, mostly by becoming the first team all year to establish a running game against the Quincy defense. With the South offensive line calling the shots, Ricky Gallito and friends galloped 66 yards in ten plays--exclusively on the same inside blast...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, | Title: Quincy Eases By SoHo, 12-6, Garners First Gridiron Title | 11/14/1980 | See Source »

Gundzinger seems strangely out of command of her own life. Two days after she meets her future step-brother, Ben, she is ready to give up her mathematics professorship and take an administrative job she isn't really sure she wants, simply to be with him. The screenplay leaves it to Ben, a likeable ex-baseball player but admitted "dumb jock," to finally tell her how foolhardy it is for her to look to a man as the solution to her own problems...

Author: By Linda S. Drucker, | Title: The Vulnerable Career Woman | 11/10/1980 | See Source »

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