Word: commandeering
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...foreign policy too we have to get rid of the command-administrative system ((jargon for dictatorial rule)). There's no other choice. It's the imperative of our time...
Torero Captain Dan Mattera then went the distance to end Captain Mark Leschly's Harvard career with a victory at the second position. Leschly battled back from a 7-5 first-set defeat to win the second, 6-3, but Mattera took command in the final stanza, closing out the match with five straight games...
...role--that of an inarticulate lover--into a triumph. In a moment of revelation, shortly before his death in battle, de Neuvillette courageously declares that Roxane really loves Cyrano. Krochuk has, throughout the play, convincingly played the lover struck dumb. But his character's powerful realization allows Krochuk to command the stage in a way he could not before...
...WORDS ARE NOT OUR STRONG SUIT. The Strategic Air Command has decided to change its longtime motto, "Peace Is Our Profession," to "War Is Our Profession -- Peace Is Our Product...
Aside from Jadid, 62 -- who served as the assistant secretary general of the regional command of the Baath Party, the ruling party then as well as now -- the more prominent of the 18 include Noureddine Attassi, 60, who was President and Prime Minister, and Mohammed Id Ashawi, 59, the Minister of Foreign Affairs. All the inmates are said to be in poor health because of inadequate medical care and, in some cases, the effects of torture. Some reportedly are victims of the "German chair," a modern-day torture rack used by Syria...