Word: commandingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sharpshooters were advised to take aim at the threatening convicts?"but you'll have to have hostile action by the inmates to fire." Then the two helicopters, loaded with tear-gas canisters, swept low over the prison, one of them barely clearing the walls. "To all posts," barked the command radio. "Jackpot One is about to make drop." There was a pause. "Jackpot has made drop. Base to all posts ?move in; launch the offensive...
...means, of course, primarily matters that affect in some way the educational process. The other thing that seems necessary if he's to have any influence and if he's to maintain the proper standards of the University is that he speak only when he has a very thorough command of the facts and the problems and the arguments involved. In short, it is important for the President to speak out, but if he is to husband his influence and exercise it properly, those occasions are going to be relatively infrequent...
Cornelius Ryan, author of The Last Battle, said in a 1966 interview that a German general "told me he once had a secret meeting with Hitler, with Bormann the only other man present. Hitler gave orders about a change in command on the Eastern Front. Within two hours the Russian radio broadcast the names of the generals who would be replaced, who would take over, and specific details on new strategy...
...command to "Behave, damn you!" was obeyed...
...prison program's main booster is Gary Hill, 31, a Lincoln, Neb., metals-company executive, who took command five years ago, after the first prison chapter was established in West Virginia in 1962. Hill got hooked on the concept after he noticed that ex-convicts, long hired for his family business, made exceptionally good workers. He organized a Jaycee prison chapter and set up a referral service for convicts that now spans the country and guarantees ex-cons assistance with jobs, housing and counseling. Says Hill: "The Jaycees allow inmates, who historically have had all their individuality taken away...