Word: commandingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jory's boldness has its perils, and once or twice he gets burned. With so much on Porter's stage command, the play sags whenever he is off. A long first scene of the second act, despite its deliniation of Helena's predatory habits, is a real albatross to this production...
...some point on this road you will be stopped by flashing lights. A solidier will walk up to you and command, "You must wait here until a convoy comes to escort you. Terrorists are active in the territory ahead." And so you are reminded again that the road is in Israel...
Like most of the old school of Harvard coaches, John Yovicsin tends to the unemotional approach toward competition. He dresses conservatively, rarely if ever ventures beyond either 40 yard line from his mid-field command post, and almost never smiles...
...superintendent for being too soft on the rioters-even though most responsible law officers around the nation commended the Chicago police for their behavior. The mayor compounded his mistake by issuing his approval of shooting looters. The overall effect was to undermine the police department's chain of command and encourage the ranks to react violently at the later civil disturbances. That they...
...power in Trudeau's government than in any previous administration. The Prime Minister's office itself is run by what has inevitably come to be called "the French Canadian Mafia." French-speaking ministers, long confined to portfolios with more prestige than power, now for the first time command important economic offices. Partly as a result of Trudeau's drive to give them a fair share of power, French-speaking intellectuals are beginning to turn their attention to Ottawa, rather than to Quebec City, and militant French Canadian separatists are becoming rebels with a less appealing cause...