Word: rank
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Major Bowes unit as part of a three-man comedy act called The Micro Maniacs. Drafted into the Army in 1942, Minor rose to command a machine-gun company in the Normandy invasion (where he received the Purple Heart), went back to civilian life in 1946 with the rank of lieutenant colonel, and returned to Ohio State, where he graduated as top man in his law school class. In 1949 he became administrative assistant to Ohio's Senator John Bricker, later moved on to become assistant to Deputy Attorney General William P. Rogers. Bricker, whose law firm represents...
...justice, anti-Semitism, and the moral vacuum of French society at the turn of the century. But when it tries to depict the people involved, the result is often ludicrous. At times, as when Dreyfus lumbers across the parade ground where he has just been stripped of his rank and yells "I'm innocent," at the top of his lungs, the picture seems almost embarassing. The fault here is that of Fritz Kortner, who plays Dreyfus. His acting style is so restrained that he just does not register any sort of emotion. Heinrich George, as Zola, has the same trouble...
...than ten percent fell under the 500 mark. Only 165 of the some 1900 colleges and junior colleges in the United States expect applicants to take these tests. Since 500 is the median score, students here are among the best who applied to these most selective colleges. Similarly with rank in class, more than half of '57 were in the top 15 percent of their classes at public or private school. Less than ten percent were in the bottom half...
...wanted to leave the government to earn more money as one of Britain's highest-paid legal brains. Five ministers who lost their jobs were consoled with the customary peerages. The total result left the Cabinet heavily loaded with Old Etonians (half of the 18 Cabinet-rank ministers...
...Rank; Continental). One night in Shanghai after the war, Air Marshal Sir Victor Goddard of the Royal New Zealand Air Force overheard a conversation at a party. "Wasn't this party to welcome Air Marshal Goddard?" a voice behind him asked. "It certainly was," said another. "Why?" The first voice replied: "He's dead! Died last night in a crash." The air marshal turned. There was apology and explanation-"I had a dream last night. It seemed so true." The dream was described; the air marshal laughed and thought no more about it, until-At this point...