Word: commandingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Joyce's, to have instead of "Mods and Rockers!" Theodore Purefoy's faithfully Catholic, "He employs a mechanical device to frustrate the sacred ends of nature!" or to have a solemn diagnostician pronounce. "He was born out of bedlock ... Ambidexterity is also latent," or to have a hallucinated barrister command, "The accused will now rise and make a vulgar statement...
Harvard, in the lane closest to the Cambridge shore, led the two other varsity shells off the starting line. A three-quarters length lead opened up with only a quarter-mile gone. The Crimson was clearly in command, stroking at a very high 38 beats per minute before settling to 35 at the mile-and -a-half-to-go mark. Princeton and M.I.T. settled sooner and rowed the body of the race...
...there is extensive oral abuse of minority groups -- about 15 per cent of the street interviews they observed began with a "brusque or nasty" command...
...Nixon. And in 1966, it was Bravo who led the defection from Democrat Pat Brown's camp: Ronald Reagan drew 24% of Los Angeles' Mexican-American vote, thus tripling the usual G.O.P. total. Republican Senator Thomas Kuchel does even better in Latin neighborhoods, thanks to his excellent command of Spanish. But the man who wins Mexican-American backing most consistently and heartily is Democrat Sam Yorty, whose maverick manner as mayor of Los Angeles appeals to the Latin sense of machismo (masculine independence...
...quarter of a century under the command of the late Henri Soulé, Manhattan's Le Pavilion was the shrine of haute cuisine in the U.S. Hélas, since Restaurateur Soulé's death last year, the eatery has slipped a bit-at least to the palate of the New York Times's fastidious Gastronome Craig Claiborne, who dropped in a few times to see how the fare was faring under the new management of sometime Hotelman Claude Philippe. Aside from the prices ($173.90 for a relatively modest dinner for six) Claiborne sadly reported that...