Word: rank
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mendes reasoned correctly. At an urgent conference, the Socialist rank and file overruled their wavering leader, Guy Mollet, and pledged all their party's 105 votes to the Premier. "Voila, un miracle!" huffed an anti-Mendes Deputy when he heard the news. "Since the government decided to increase wages ... it is assured a comfortable majority...
Answers to such questions on the fall questionnaires as "In what quarter of your class do you think you will rank, academically, in the coming year?" will be compared with data collected from the same 200 freshmen later in the spring...
...championship by outrunning the Illini, 40-7. At Madison, Wis., Alan ("the Horse") Ameche battered the Rice line for two touchdowns as Wisconsin won, 13-7. In Dallas, for all their fumbles, the Oklahoma Sooners beefed up their claim to collegiate football's top rank by beating Texas, 14-7. In the Ivy League, Harvard's Crimson outshaded the Big Red of Cornell in a surprising upset, 13-12; Yale outlasted Columbia, 13-7, and Princeton squeezed past Penn by the same score...
...than criminals or animals. But the bedlams of the 1800s gave way only to the unspeakable "back wards" of the 1900s, where men, women and children languished in filth and darkness. Now, many states in the U.S. are striving to live down that shame. As late as 1948, Indiana ranked 40th among the states, judged by the crude yardstick, of the amount of money spent on mental patients ($1.11 a day). But last week Indiana was in the midst of a "total push" to bring itself to top rank...
...name now follows Mao's on all lists, and leads the rest when Mao's does not appear. Tall, gaunt Liu Shao-chi is one of the least known of the Peking rulers, a humorless man whose slightest pronouncement on Communist theory rings among the party rank and file more loudly than the bombast of other figures. His wife once said of him: "He has an inexorable heart...