Word: rank
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...before he was 15 by lying about his age. He served on convoy duty in the Atlantic for ten months, later served in both the Army and the Marines. By the time he was 19, Mike had served in three branches of the armed forces, never rising above the rank of private first class, and was the youngest Montanan in the war. He still wears the Marines' discharge button in his lapel...
Such artistic daring has been the prime reason for Zeffirelli's top rank among opera directors. "We must make a crusade against boredom in the opera," he says, and in the past he has done so with a flourish and grandeur spent the ten best years of my life doing opera," he says wearily, "and now I will do it only for special events. I'll concentrate more on the theater. If I have flops, I won't regret them. The size of a man is known by the size of his flops...
Christian unity can be achieved only if it "takes root in the local communi ties," says Bishop Reuben H. Mueller, the new president of the National Council of Churches. The roots are already sprouting. Ecumenism - until recently the private dream of theologians and the occasional public practice of rank ing clergymen - has become a spirit-changing factor in the church life of every U.S. community. Every day more laymen join in a dialogue once reserved for ministers, and as one Washington, D.C., pastor puts it, "some of the best discussions take place in car pools and Laundromats." The example...
...final game, Boston College meets R.P.I. at nearby McHugh Forum. If it weren't for the fact that B.C.'s athletic director was chairman of the seeding committee, the Eagles third rank would be a surprise...
Sometimes, of course, his highhanded ways enraged rank-and-file Democratic Senators. There was the time when North Dakota's Quentin Burdick and Ohio's Stephen Young, both Democrats but a bit too liberal to be members of the Johnson fan club, badly wanted two vacancies that had occurred on the Judiciary Committee. Both had applied for the places in writing. When the committee-assigning Democratic steering committee met, however, Baker appeared before it and announced that Burdick and Young had withdrawn their requests. No one questioned his word, and the seats were given to Missouri...