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  • They could never understand why, when a commando's strength is above 700, it was capped by the government at 555.

    Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister? 2010

  • The video footage was shot last month using a camera mounted on one of the commando's helmets.

    Helmet-Cam Video Shows Commandos Capturing Somali Pirates (VIDEO) 2010

  • The video footage was shot last month using a camera mounted on one of the commando's helmets.

    Helmet-Cam Video Shows Commandos Capturing Somali Pirates (VIDEO) 2010

  • And then there are the films that look at the period after: "Adam Resurrected" with its disturbing depiction of a comic who survived the concentration camps as a Nazi commando's pet dog (Jeff Goldblum in an elastic Gumby defying role).

    Regina Weinreich: Rethinking The Reader 2009

  • An examination of the period after The Holocaust based upon Yoram Kaniuk's 1971 novel, "Adam Resurrected" with its disturbing depiction of a comic who survived the concentration camps as a Nazi commando's pet dog (Jeff Goldblum in an elastic Gumby defying role to Willem Dafoe's absurdist oppressor), mostly takes place in a post-war mental institution in Israel.

    Regina Weinreich: Paul Shrader Eats Dirt: Israel Film Festival 2009

  • We each ordered the "Boom, Bam, Smackle" which is a burger/fries/shake combo (pineapple shakes, just fabulous), and opted to go for the "Homer" ... meaning those burgers were a pound a piece, and loaded like a commando's bandoleer.

    June 27th, 2006 nondescript 2006

  • Labbe did not command the Airborne Regiment, nor was Labbe ever censured for anything that the Airborne Regiment, and specifically, that one of its commando's did.

    Redemption? Better journalism? 2008

  • The only change in the commando's expression was a compression of his lips when I mentioned the explosives.

    Step on a Crack Patterson, James, 1947- 2007

  • Then pictures we weren't supposed to see, a teen commando's scary secret video.

    CNN Transcript Oct 31, 2007 2007

  • A police official says the bomber was wearing a commando's uniform when he blew himself up.

    CNN Transcript Jul 2, 2005 2005

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