Word: rank
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Khrushchev smiles, the light flashes on two gold bicuspids. He is short (5 ft. 3 in.), like all of Stalin's men, but bulky, and he has a blunt, peasant face. Among Russians he has a crude way of addressing all those below him in rank with the unceremonious and familiar "thou." Said a Russian who knew him during his days in the Moscow Soviet: "He exudes self-confidence and aplomb. He knows very well how to annoy people with explanations of their party tasks." Was he talking with Malenkov now about his failed party tasks...
Where once Russia was noted for the novels of Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoyevsky; the drama of Anton Chekov; the satires of Michael Saltykov; and the sketches of Gleb Uspensky, Russia today, stifled by the evils of uniformity, has no writer of first rank...
...caught up with yet. He's just started reading August of 1944, from which he learns that Allied forces are making a daring thrust for Paris. Hitler, at this point, is in a fury over the plot to assassinate him, and has begun a purge of top-rank Nazis...
From 8 in the morning until 2:30 in the afternoon, the 80 contestants shuffled silently around the stock. There were 13 classes to be judged, with four animals in each class. The trick was to rank them in their proper order. For Eddie, the Shorthorn heifers seemed easy. One looked a bit long-bodied; another was too narrow through the quarters; a third stood out as "a thick, typy heifer that had a lot of bloom." Each heifer had a number on its back, and Eddie jotted down in his notebook how he thought they should rank...
...women who use the Bureau's services are from all rank lists, though there is naturally a slight preponderance of those who are doing unsatisfactory work. "We've had people who have three A's and a B and want help to get four A's and others who have four A's and don't want to work as hard as they do," says Perry. "Every year we have several men who graduate with magnas...