Word: commandingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pacific Command...
...looking over the "Pacific Command" map, I noticed that you have named the island of Attu, in the Aleutian Island chain, as Athu. Has the island's name been changed...
...sounds like the biggest ship ever taken over for political or private purposes," Albion commented last night. Meanwhile, Henrique Malta Galvao, the exiled Portuguese author and adventurer now in command of the $1.6 million Santa Maria, successfully eluded three navies during a day of frantic search in the Caribbean...
...achievements of the Constitutional Convention of 1917-1919 witness, such a body can provide an unhurried and well-organized forum for revisions. Its novelty would command a large public audience and stimulate political interest or participation of people who normally have little to do with politics. Co-operation between professionals and research staffs has been the formula for successful conventions in other states, and the support of many politicians for reform in general and the amount of research already under way indicate that a convention could be productive here...
...neighborhood "tanks." Based on a magazine piece by Marion (See Here, Private Hargrove) Hargrove and Herb Carlson, the film is a run-of-the-main, sailor-suit farce about a peacetime yachtsman (Lemmon) who joins the Navy during World War II, and to his horror is promptly assigned to command what's known in sailor talk as a "baldheaded schooner." His mission: sail across about 1,000 nautical miles of Jap-infested ocean in a walloping window blind madmanned by a crew that thinks a boom is a noise, makes improper advances to the ship's winch...