Word: rank
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...year. Before World War II, Cordell Hull used to sit in the draft of a somnolent fan for two or three hours of lonely reflection, then file a guideline dispatch to a dozen or so ambassadors and about 40 other men holding the now-almost-forgotten rank of minister as heads of the now-almost-forgotten kind of post called legation...
...have accomplished the part of my duty that bound me to the Cuban revolution. I bid farewell to you to our comrades, to your people who are now mine. I make formal renunciation of my duties in the leadership of the party, of my post as minister, of my rank as major, of my Cuban citizenship. Other lands of the world claim the aid of my modest efforts, and the time has come for us to separate...
GOETHE, by Richard Friedenthal. This first biography in more than 20 years looks at the human side of the great German writer. Though sometimes merciless in dissecting Goethe's follies, Friedenthal succeeds in showing how his strengths and vagaries combined to provide the works of consummate imagination that rank Goethe with Shakespeare and Dante...
...people. To fragment the School and absorb it into the departments would, moreover, change the whole quality of the enterprise. In the Arts and Science fram-work, where the dominant ethos is that of advanced research and scholarship, the outlook of professional education would be relegated to a lower rank. Nor is it clear that the departments would welcome the newer responsibilities which the projected arrangement envisages for them, quite apart from the question whether they are equipped to discharge these responsibilities effectively. It is unlikely, in our view, that even the natural applications of the scholarly disciplines to education...
...Rank on Rank. With Goodwin and Busby out and Larry O'Brien switching to the Post Office Department, the top rank of aides is reduced-in order of importance-to Moyers, who also acts as a general adviser, Bundy, Johnson's expert in diplomacy and national security, and Valenti, a Man Friday who, among other responsibilities, supervises the presidential schedule and probably spends more time with Lyndon than any other aide in the new lineup...