Word: commanding
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...trespass on the separation of powers doctrine in spirit if not in law. He denounced at some length the ruling of a Los Angeles trial judge in a lawsuit that is still in progress. Nixon described as "probably the most extreme judicial decree so far" a Superior Court command that the city school district establish nearly precise racial balance throughout its 561-school system. (Coleman calls Los Angeles "a smug Northern district that hasn't done a thing about the segregation there.") Superior Court Presiding Judge Joseph Wapner, who did not take part in the Los Angeles ruling, found...
...pensive man in private, Jackson expounds his opinions forcefully in public. He does not arouse a crowd as readily as King did, but he employs cadence, sweeping hand gestures, a penetrating gaze and abrupt changes in volume to command attention. He deliberately mangles grammar and throws in mild profanity to develop rapport with audiences. He is hopelessly addicted to preacherly metaphors, some effectively illuminating, others either mystifying or inept. "We need leadership," he likes to say, "not leaders. The ship is what's important because
...question of cooperating with the Communists in local governments. The moderates, who wanted to stay clear of the Communists, reconstituted themselves as the Social Democrats; Nenni's faction, figuring that the Communists had to be reckoned with, if only because of their strength at the polls (they regularly command one-quarter of the national vote), became simply the Socialist Party. This split in the coalition forced Rumor to dissolve his entire government...
Charles H. Kuhl, a floor sweeper in South Bend, Ind., was a 27-year-old soldier in 1943 when the late General George S. Patton accused him of malingering and slapped him across the face with a pair of gloves-an outburst that may have cost Patton his command of the Seventh Army. Now that the film Patton, starring George C. Scott (TIME, Feb. 9), re-creates Kuhl's agony, the victim recalls: "As I started out of the [hospital] tent, he booted me in the fanny. They hid me in the litter bearers' tent until he left...
Assured Masculinity. Physically, Gunn is a lean six-footer who bends slightly forward from the waist as if he were bracing himself against a brisk wind. His long tapered fingers shape the air with the aristocratic command of a symphony conductor, and his voice has a resonant precision that quells any incipient coughers in the audience. Psychically, his stage personality is one of intensely contained, almost glacial calm. He understates like distant rolling thunder. Even now, many blacks are playing the professional Negro on stage, parody Uncle Toms or militant minstrels, and thus catering to the applause and approval...