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There are some other curiosities, not confined to the unusual words selected but to their usage by the author: in the Introduction he refers to an episode in which his father completed his Bachelor's degree “at the behest of the Marine Corps.”
By contrast, genuine enthusiasm greeted the unfolding Bruce Babbitt story, as Gigot and Bob Schieffer (CBS's Face the Nation ) both predicted that Babbitt's Supreme Court ambitions would be ruined by accusations that he had blocked a casino license for an Indian tribe at the behest of another tribe that had given money to the Democrats.
(Speaking of Breakfast Clubs, I once had breakfast with him, at his behest.
Never close to this unassuming homemaker, Ellen returns reluctantly, at the behest of her father-mentor, an imposing professor of literature at a small, middling college who maintains that he's too busy to tend to his wife.
Tens of thousands of his subjects were tortured and murdered at his behest.