Word: commandingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...archaeologists found another brightly colored mosaic-floor in one small room of a Roman villa of the 4th century A.D. "The cleverly interwoven pattern of the mosaic," Hanfmann said, "suggests the highly sophisticated ornamental sense of late Roman interior decorators," To command a view of Sardis, the villa was built high on a cliff above the torrent Pactolus, which once brought gold to the ancient Lydians...
...week, the reports from U.S. intelligence sources were ominous. East-West tensions had reached the snapping point. The Soviet Union was mobilizing. An air strike against the U.S. and Canada was imminent. Then, on Saturday morning, came confirmation from North American Air Defense Command radar-loaded aircraft patrolling the Pacific near Midway: enemy planes were U.S.-bound...
...speedy new F-106s on some 6,000 intercept sorties. On the radarscopes of distant destroyers and aircraft, of early-warning stations from the Canadian Arctic and Alaska to towers planted deep in Atlantic waters, appeared a multitude of bogey blips. They were caused by about 250 Strategic Air Command B-478, B-528 and refueling tankers, along with Vulcan bombers of Britain's Royal Air Force. Many of these planes were homebound from foreign bases; others had slipped from their North American stations to turn around over the Pacific and Atlantic and simulate an enemy strike...
Drummed out of his command of the 24th Infantry Division on charges of playing partisan politics, Major General Edwin A. Walker, 51, wallowed for five months in a colonel's billet at U.S. European Army headquarters in Heidelberg. But last week came word of his release from Pentagon purgatory and reassignment to Hawaii, where he will become assistant chief of staff for training and operations in the Pacific-a prestigious post indicating that the combat-proved Texan still had a shot at a third star...
...with Freeman's Lee's Lieutenants (which still sells thousands of copies a year), and has been surging ever since. In 1961. the Civil War's 100th anniversary year, more than 250 Civil War books have been published, and even the most trivial of them command audiences of around...