Word: commandingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Norm Walsh was making his first start since the southern trip, and although control problems got him into trouble in the fourth when Army scored twice, he had command of the Cadets until the eighth...
...Hanoi's offensive was viewed by many in Saigon and Washington as a desperate move, designed to score a few quick "spectaculars" and win some easy headlines. Last week,jas the Communist drive entered its second month, that early optimism had all but vanished. In Saigon, the U.S. command grimly foresaw "an all-out effort" that could run through the monsoon season that usually begins later this month -possibly on a reduced scale-and then be stepped up well before the U.S. elections and continue on into the new year. Certainly there was no letup in the Communist attacks...
...women who capture the public imagination today? Angela Davis? Germaine Greer? Shirley Chisholm? Each of them does command unusual attention, but none of them more than two long-dead ladies: Elizabeth I, Queen of England from 1558 to 1603, and Mary, Queen of Scots, her contemporary and bitter rival. Their sudden popularity is a turn of the popular psyche that befuddles the critics, but, in this day of so-called new politics, Elizabeth and Mary's Old World politics remain as fascinating as ever. Four centuries old, history's most famous catfight still reverberates passionately, and every entertainment...
...scenario came true. The Lakers and the Bucks did meet, but their series rarely generated the anticipated excitement-not even in the seesawing struggle of the seven-footers, Chamberlain and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. In the vital closing minutes of the decisive sixth game, Chamberlain, 35, took almost humiliating command of 24-year-old Jabbar and led the Lakers to victory...
Walsh was in complete command in the fifth and sixth innings, but in the seventh he was victimized by bad fielding, and it cost Harvard the game. A single, an infield error, and an uncovered base on a sacrifice bunt loaded the bases with no outs. A sacrifice fly tied the game, and after a single filled the bases again. Walsh walked in the winning...