Tactical Air Command

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a U.S. Air Force command supplying direct air support to U.S. Army ground combat units.

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Mississippi’s nickname comes from the magnificent trees that grow there. What is it?

Certainly, she seems to command near-total devotion among her clients.
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And Air Force assessors are the first to say such imaging never tells the whole story.
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Sprawled on chaise lounges with their knees high in the air and their legs spread wide.
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Indeed, Lion Air, with 45 percent of the domestic Indonesian airline market, has swallowed the Fernandes formula whole.
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There is a larger reason, beyond the airlines themselves, why Lion Air and 61 other Indonesian airlines are on this black list.
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One of the simplest of these childish tricks is the invention of an excuse for not instantly obeying a command, as "Come here!"
Children's Ways|James Sully
Bells were pealing and tolling in all directions, and the air was filled with the sound of distant shouts and cries.
Davy and The Goblin|Charles E. Carryl
It is to be remembered, however, that a few of these bacteria may reach the sputum from the upper air-passages.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
Like every other Spanish general in supreme command abroad, Polavieja had his enemies in Spain.
The Philippine Islands|John Foreman
We had now approached closely to the foot of the mountain-ranges, and their lofty summits were high above us in mid-air.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846|Various