Word: commandment
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...newsmen, who were dressed in Army uniforms, Tojo immediately told his wife to flee out the back door. After exhaling another Hai, she did. Then Tojo, perhaps to save his honor, tried to commit suicide with a revolver but he only managed to wound himself. Mrs. Tojo, disobeying the command of her husband for the first time in her life, crept back to the house to watch as American MPs came to carry her bleeding husband away...
...panel also opted for partial disarmament of the powerful Joint Chiefs of Staff. The Chiefs now function in a triple role, serving not only as commanders of their respective services and as military advisers to the President but also as military staff in the chain of operational command between the Secretary of Defense and forces in the field. The Fitzhugh panel would relieve the chiefs of their operational responsibilities, reassign the job to a single senior military officer with a separate staff...
...made her name on the business side as a crack ad saleswoman who had, as one colleague put it, "the persistence of gravity." She went to work in 1918, was responsible for doubling linage by 1923, and after that headed the ad department until 1947, when she assumed command at the death of her husband. In politics, she continued the Trib's tradition of moderate Republicanism; as a journalist she campaigned to reach U.S. women with expanded news of society, gardening, child and husband care, even an experimental kitchen to devise and test recipes. After retiring...
...huge skyscrapers was finished because they are so costly. But Sears executives expect to gain profit as well as prestige from their building. About two-fifths of its 4,400,000 sq. ft. of office space will be rented out to other tenants. Extremely high floors command premium prices, and Sears plans to charge rents of $8.50 to $12 per sq. ft. The new building will cost more than $100 million, but even in these times of tight money the company can afford it, Sears intends to finance the entire cost out of its accumulated earnings...
Both, for instance, make a point of the Navy's decision to classify the intelligence-gathering cruise as a "minimal risk" operation. But Armbrister traces the planning process through the chain of command in Hawaii and Washington. At the Honolulu headquarters, it was a young ensign in the intelligence section who passed on the low-risk appraisal; an experienced specialist in North Korean affairs had been shunted aside for opaque reasons. In Washington, representatives of the Pentagon, State Department, CIA, White House and National Security Agency approved Pueblo's excursion. One ranking NSA official warned that the North...