Word: commandingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were drab years of no activity and few promotions. Taylor was a lieutenant for 13 years, but he led the lively life reserved for the outstanding young officer-language study in both France and Japan, a tour as an instructor at West Point, then assignment to the Command and Staff School and the Army War College...
...Taylor was hit, the sergeant stormed up to his rescue with an attitude that was anything but solicitous: "Goddammit. General, now do you believe me?" Taylor spent ten days in the hospital, but made his staff keep his name off the wounded list for fear he would lose his command...
...What are the chances it will succeed?" asked Ben-Gurion. "Fifty-fifty," was the reply. At 4:41 a.m. came the command "Esh!" (Fire!), and the rocket lifted...
...respectable second to the Times (in 1925 it had 281,672 circulation to the Times''s 350,-406), the Trib has slid steadily through the years into a kind of newspaper no man's land-a journey accelerated to some degree by four successive changes of command and a proliferation of editors. Today the Trib is out of the running. It cannot hope to match the Daily News's direct appeal to the solar plexus. Nor can it compete effectively with the Times, a paper that is constantly finding so much more news fit to print...
Whatever Hemingway's merits or demerits as a thinker, he had the greatest technical command of English of any modern writer except Joyce. He performed a major operation on the English sentence. He cut out the adjectives and prompting words that tell a reader how to feel and replaced them with spare, brisk monosyllables that he called the "ugly short infantry of the mind." Hemingway spliced his images together like a film editor, so that the action was always advancing on the reader rather than the reader following the action...