Word: rank
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...militancy has siphoned off much support from urban Italians, Irish and Slavs. The war has disenchanted many intellectuals. Of greater concern to the Democrats is their fading appeal to the blue-collar vote, once their mainstay. California's Brown, who had the support of labor leaders but lost the rank-and-file vote, noted: "Workers used to ask about workmen's compensation and disability insurance. Not this time. The workers have become aristocrats, and when they become aristocrats, they become Republicans...
When he signed the bill creating the twelfth Cabinet-rank federal agency last month, Lyndon Johnson gave no nod, verbal or cranial, to the man who had worked hardest to create the Administration's long-sought Department of Transportation. Alan Stephenson Boyd stood stoically aside while the President praised others and declared gratuitously that he was looking for a "strong man" to head DOT. Last week Johnson announced his choice: Alan Boyd, 44, former chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board who, as Under Secretary of Commerce for Transportation, had devoted his days since June 1965 to the task...
...kill at Tay Ninh demonstrated, the arsenal of American weapons in Viet Nam is the deadliest ever developed for man-to-man combat. The U.S. infantryman in Viet Nam today shoulders six times the firepower of his Korean War counterpart; behind him stand rank upon rank of mobile mortars and howitzers that can be called in by air as quickly as he needs them. Overhead hover helicopters bristling with machine guns, rockets and automatic grenade launchers; above the "gunships" circle jet fighter-bombers armed with searing napalm, white phosphorous and bomblets that can unleash deadly patterns of tiny steel pellets...
Rising grades are another pressure to change the Rank List system. Last year, 52 per cent of the College made Dean's List, compared with 45 per cent three years ago, and 60 per cent graduated with honors...
Claiming that many of these seniors were unqualified to write a thesis, the tutors offered several methods for weeding out the incompetents. One suggestion was to raise minimum rank-list requirements for honors candidates from Group IV to III; another was to offer a seminar that seniors could take for honors in lieu of writing a thesis...