Word: rank
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Intruder, a rank in-and-outer owned by the Allwood Stable, hardly got started in the first heat of the Hambletonian at Goshen's Good Time Park, and finished eleventh. But in the next two tours of the track, The Intruder waltzed home from far back to take the $100,604 stake. Next day the Hambletonian Society announced that it was moving the "Wagon Horse" classic to the Du Quoin, Ill. State Fair...
...decision, Nofri joined the Christian Democrats and began to campaign actively against "Marxist corruption and confusion." On Mayor Ce-rofolino's motion, the party denounced Nofri as an "outcast and traitor." Cerofolino himself was put on the spot by his party superiors for "failure to maintain rank-and-file discipline...
...late preconvention season of 1956, two Catholics-Massachusetts Senator John Kennedy and New York Mayor Robert Wagner-rank high among Democratic vice-presidential possibilities. One reason: a confidential survey now in the hands of selected Democratic leaders, e.-g., Harriman Adviser Carmine De Sapio and Stevenson Campaign Manager James Finnegan (both Catholics). The survey's fundamental thesis: Democratic presidential chances in November may well depend upon getting a Catholic on the national ticket...
...museums have taken the wraps off their latest acquisitions, revealing summer surprises that rank high as novelties and hold their own as modern...
Whatever Gould's eccentricities, they have not interfered with his swift rise to the top rank of contemporary performers. Now he is tempted to give up performing for composing; he wants ultimately to devote only two months or so a year to playing and the rest of the time to composing. "Before I'm 70," says young Glenn Gould, "I'd like to have made some good recordings and composed some chamber music, finished a couple of symphonies and an opera...