Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...introduction of new weapons into the standstill zone, now estimates that some 45 to 50 SAM batteries are fully operational and another 100 sites have been prepared to receive missiles. The batteries, each containing six missile launchers, have continually edged forward, so that the SAMs now have theoretical command of the air space behind Israel's Bar-Lev Line on the Suez's east bank. If hostilities resume and Egyptian guns again pound the Israeli fortifications, the SAMs could exact a heavy toll from Israeli fighter-bombers crossing the Canal to silence Egyptian artillery. Since at least...
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Even in the early parts of the race, Harvard was in command. Spengler and Quirk were soon running first and fourth, while Bob Seals and Mark Connolly were fifth and sixth. The situation didn't change much except for Seal's move during the middle of the five-mile race. By the four-mile point, he was second, and he finished in the same position letter specify the necessary steps toward admission...
...dream his Improbable Dream, the waking Richard Nixon is increasingly unsparing of himself, his Vice President, his Cabinet and the enormous, varied and subtle resources of his office. Coming down the stretch toward Nov. 3 and the 1970 election, the President has taken active as well as strategic command of the campaign he began outlining more than a year ago. Nixon has found the liberal Senate to be his most embarrassing and implacable opponent; on one issue and appointment after another, the Senate has plagued his policies and thwarted his choices. Thus while 33 governorships are up for grabs...
...this enough to charge Peterson with premeditated murder? No, said the Army's investigating officer. But he was overruled by superiors who indicated that the death penalty would be asked. It was another example of why critics fault U.S. military justice for "command influence." Despite recent reforms, a convening authority can still order trial, appoint members of the court, prosecutor and military defense lawyer...