Word: rank
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Monsieur Count, you won't have her, you won't! Because he's a great lord, he thinks he's a great genius. Nobility, fortune, rank, station all these make him so proud! And what did he do to deserve such advantages? Went to the trouble of being born, that's all! For the rest he's ordinary enough. Whereas I--by God! Lost among the obscure crowd, I've had to deploy more skill and cunning just to survive than it's taken to rule all of Spain for the last hundred years... (Leib...
...title General of the Army, which has the insignia of five stars, has been held by only five gentlemen: Omar Bradley, George Marshall, Douglas MacArthur, Henry H. ("Hap") Arnold and Dwight Eisenhower. You should also have mentioned John J. Pershing, who held the slightly different but even more impressive rank General of the Armies...
Instead he merely advised them to vote "according to their conscience." An agitated meeting of his party's Central Committee broke up without any accord on how to instruct its rank and file. Some party leaders, including former Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville, argued vigorously in favor of Giscard, but a surprising number expressed a preference either for Mitterrand or for not voting at all. Resentment ran high about Giscard's attempts to eliminate neo-Gaullists from power during his seven years as President...
Journalists generally rank the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times as the three best papers in the country. The Post's particular distinction is its pizazz. This is largely the doing of its celebrated executive editor, Ben Bradlee, aggressive, abrasive, amusing -the very model of Jason Robards in All the President's Men. With Watergate to his credit, he glories in playing what he describes as journalistic "hardball." He is a Harvardman who talks constantly in street profanity...
...come from out of state, recruiters have sent as many as 265,000 brochures at a single mailing. Most schools prefer mailings of 12,000 or so. Computers allow colleges to select student names for promotional mailings by zip code, ethnic group and family income-as well as class rank, test scores, anticipated college major and planned career. There is a "Bible college" list, a list of students interested in West Point or Annapolis, even a list of Missouri women who hope to become engineers. The student most often sought, though, according to the College Board's Darrell Morris...