Word: commandingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Briggs took command of his match from the start, aggressively pounding the front wall with long drives while ubiquitously gliding across the court to return Smith's best shots...
...judgment with which they approach the sundry causes thrown up to us by activist groups, it seems sure that the Administration would have given in to their demands at least in part, and education at the University would have suffered. If we consider the kind of changes likely to command support from vocal students, on the basis of causes popular at other universities, we see that their neglect of these possibilities is benign...
...stream of Washington officials delivered by helicopter: Cabinet chiefs, agency heads, White House aides. In pursuit of his plan to shake up the stubborn, slow-moving federal bureaucracy, he was starting with his own men. He wanted their ideas on how to make the Government more responsive to presidential command; he also wanted to discuss their futures, which in some cases are not going to be in Government. Each guest huddled with him inside the rustic presidential lodge known as "Aspen," where even a blazing fire did not always take the chill off the proceedings...
According to the English-language report, which was picked up by a radio monitoring laboratory in Britain, the mutiny had been staged by "officers and some other crew members" who succeeded in taking command of their vessel for a time. But then the uprising was crushed, and the second sub entered Sogne Fjord to give help. The defeated mutineers, said Albania's Radio Tirana in a 16-minute broadcast that cited Moscow sources, were transferred to the second sub, and both vessels left the fjord, heading for the Baltic. The broadcast suggested that the uprising posed special danger...
...ARPA network is also being used as an experimental model for a global military command and control system...