Word: commandingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...large number of Middle Americans attribute the weakening of the family structures to the fact that so many mothers have gone to work. In the youthful disrespect for American institutions they see reflected the breakdown of their own parental authority, although a great many still control their children and command their respect...
Normalcy was all the more noteworthy for the trial's timing. It started just before Lundy Day, named for the Londonderry governor who in 1689 ordered the city's gates opened to the Catholic army of James II. Lundy's command was defied by a group of apprentice boys who slammed the gates shut. In past years, members of the politically powerful Orange Order have burned 60-foot effigies of Lundy from the highest column in town, illuminating the Catholic slum of Bogside and exacerbating Catholic tempers. This year Lundy stood only four feet high...
Presidential Pressure. The battle was an eight-week engagement involving the Special Forces camps of Bu Prang and Due Lap in the Central Highlands along the Cambodian border. At least eight battalions under the command of the ARVN 23rd division, which had failed twice in the past two years to repulse enemy attacks, fended off three seasoned North Vietnamese regiments, numbering about 5,000 men. Last week, as the Communists withdrew to base camps farther north in Cambodia...