Word: rank
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...After that, under the 1947 Presidential Succession Act, come the Cabinet members in order of rank: the Secretaries of State, Treasury and Defense, the Attorney General, the Postmaster General, and the Secretaries of the Interior, Agriculture, Commerce and Labor. The Health, Education and Welfare Department was only created in 1953, has not yet been written into...
More than 500 actors tried to get into the group. Vaughan picked 15, including his wife, Helen Quarrier; none are of star rank but all are experienced. "Most of us are making sacrifices to come here," he says. "Our salaries are certainly not high. But I think we all felt the same motivation to try something better." He hopes to stay in Seattle the rest of his life...
Despite Goldwater's suspicions, Nixon sounds convincing when he insists that he is not seeking the nomination (see box on following page). And his assessment of his political position seems realistic. Nixon still rates high with rank-and-file Republican voters, retains the respect of most G.O.P. leaders. But while those leaders would certainly be willing to go along with Nixon if political circumstances so dictated, almost none of them now seem very enthusiastic about the possibility of his candidacy...
...ranked Texas (see following story) might thank its Lone Star that it does not have to play any of the Big Five. Consider the record. None of them have lost more than two games so far this season-and most of those losses were to fellow members of the club. Two of them (Navy and Pitt) rank among the nation's top five, and all are in the top 20. They have played a total of 30 intersectional games, and they have won 27 of them. They stand 2-1 with the Big Ten, 4-0 with the Atlantic...
...comedy of life and essentially detached. Her manner suggested that sex wasn't everything, that exuberance could give vitality to even the middle-aged and the homely. She palpably could never see herself as a romantic, and the arranged embrace at play's end with the second-rank character always seemed a little stiff, as if her corsets were binding...