Word: commandingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reno, a West Point graduate, was second in command of the 7th Cavalry's 600 troopers on June 25, 1876, when Lieut. Colonel George Armstrong Custer ordered the attack at Little Big Horn. For days, scouts had been telling Custer that thousands of Sioux and Cheyenne Indians were encamped in the area, but he had dismissed the reports as exaggerations. "I guess we'll get through with them in one day," he said...
...French government's attitude as "a very British one: wait and see." Since negotiations are not likely to get under way before next fall, De Gaulle has plenty of time to ruminate. Just to keep in his hand, however, he announced that he would hold one of his command performance press conferences on May 16, at which he might-or might not-have something to say about Britain and Europe...
...early afternoon, the King got in his car and drove to the Defense Ministry in Athens, which was the coup's command post and was filled with all manner of prisoners, heavily armed junior officers and the ranking military men of Greece. The King confronted the leaders of the coup. "You are going to get three orders," he told them. "The first order: I want Arnaoutis brought here. Get him! The second order: Get Kanellopoulos and bring him here. The third order: I want to speak to the generals alone...
Shared Blame. Tapped in 1961 to build the spacecraft's command and service modules, North American was in trouble with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration almost from the start. Unhappy about costs and sloppy workmanship, the space agency eventually forced the Los Angeles-based company to lop off 3,000 workers, sent in extra quality-control inspectors, changed contracting procedures to combat what it considered North American's "time clock" approach...
...Wright Brothers plane ("It was my first takeoff, first landing and first crack-up"), was the first to fly combat against Pancho Villa along the Mexican border in 1916, first to fly more than 100 miles nonstop, first to operate a radio in flight, first to command the fledgling U.S. Air Service First Army in World War I and, before retiring in 1935, the man who selected the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress to fill U.S. needs for a long-range bomber; of a heart attack; at Andrews Air Force Base...