Word: rank
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...again, tossed it aside. He enthroned himself in a large chair in front of a head photograph of himself that measured five feet from groomed hair to fighting jaw. Then Estes Kefauver, in his familiar, prim drawl, began to read: "I have received much encouragement, particularly from the rank-and-file members of the party. I therefore announce my candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination at the convention to be held in Chicago next August...
...Rank & File Strength. Since Kefauver's vote-getting reputation rests almost solely on his showing in the 1952 primaries, reporters' questioning centered on his plans for next year's contests. Would he enter the California primary in a head-on collision with Adlai Stevenson? Kefauver, just returned from a six-day trip to California, said he had promised his followers to run there if he ran at all. What about Minnesota? Said Kefauver: "Well, I concede that things are pretty well stacked against me, apparently, but I have been receiving an awful lot of requests from rank...
Randolph shone most brightly in a recklessly courageous military career: he jumped into Yugoslavia as a parachutist with a Commando unit, also served in North Africa and Italy, reached the rank of major. He covered the Korean war for the Daily Telegraph, managed to rub most of his fellow correspondents the wrong way until the day he returned from a patrol action with a half-dollar-sized shrapnel hole in his shin and coolly dictated a dispatch...
...court* suspended him from service for five years, with loss of rank and privilege, and he resigned. (He died in 1936 at the age of 56.) The air force had lost a leader but found a prophet and a martyr, and in the next two decades Billy Mitchell was a major article of faith in the new cult of air power that justified its doctrines in World...
Rigid rules of rank and seniority employed by most American college faculties today prevent the talented teacher from fully developing his potentialities, Mrs. Douglas Horton, ex-president of Wellesley and currently a director of the Fund for the Advancement of Education, stated yesterday...