Word: commandingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...much trouble could the Communists cause in South Viet Nam? The U.S. command believes that any offensive will fail, partly because the Viet Cong structure is currently so weak that the North Vietnamese army will be fighting virtually alone. American military experts also concede, though, that the NVA could wreak some "spectaculars," including the seizure of some towns. Even Defense Secretary Laird, who claims 100% confidence in Vietnamization, predicts only that Saigon's troops will win 75% of its battles...
...larger than the combined research fleets of all other maritime powers. In nearly every major body of water, their sea scientists are plumbing the depths for data on currents, water temperature and the sea bed that are vital to fishermen and submariners alike. Although responsible to different chains of command, the commercial and armed navies often work in tandem. A visit to a neutral port by a Russian freighter, for instance, may be followed by a request for docking privileges by a trawler fleet-then by the flag-showing appearance of a rakish, gray-hulled missile cruiser...
...seven words, generally enigmatic, may come to a man's mind. He cannot contain himself and shouts them out. If the poem does not stir [people], nothing comes to pass; but if the poet's words strike them, they all draw away without a sound, under the command of a holy dread. Now he is a man no longer but a god, and anyone has license to kill...
...researchers can ever learn to intercept the genetic command that orders brain cells to link up in a particular way, they may eventually be able to substitute commands of their own. That, in turn, might enable them some day to prevent wiring defects in mice and possibly even in higher mammals, including...
...light-skinned people to wear protective clothing in warm, humid climates racist? Are historians who point to the exploitation and oppression of blacks, Indians and Chicanos racist? Should they deny reality? Should they suggest that blacks were targets of discrimination on a geographical basis, a metaphysical basis, a divine command? Such questions make Mark's definition look ridiculous, but, alas, these are not the questions to which Mark alludes...