Word: rank
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unless he gave information to his guards-just what they sought from him he did not specify. He did not discover that his mother Wynona was actually alive until he phoned home last week. He told her that he had refused to tell the guards anything but his name, rank and serial number. As a result, he was beaten and one of his teeth was knocked out. Most of the hostages were allowed 20-minute walks outside their rooms once a week without harassment, but Jerry Miele, 42, a communications officer, had to beg for his walk. When...
...best known among the few bronzes that survived from this period are the Poseidon in the Athens National Archaeological Museum and the charioteer in Delphi. In their restored state, the two statues at the Florence museum rank with this select company. Scholars and amateurs alike have been fascinated by both the perfection of the preservation and the skill of the statues' creators, as reflected in such details as the whorls of a beard, the braids of a headband, the shiny, silver-plated teeth and the copper lips, eyelashes and nipples...
...very small and already quite extraordinary," says Rose, himself a cellist of the first rank. Yo-Yo's technique was impeccable, and then an inner quality, unteachable, began to develop. "When he was about 17," says Rose, "he gave a performance of Schubert's Arpeggione, which is a holy terror for cellists, and it was so gorgeous I was moved to tears...
...proposal requires professors in these courses to submit an official mid-term grade for all students late in the term. If a student did not take the final exam, this mid-term grade would appear on his transcript, although the grade would not count towards rank listing or honors degree requirements...
Today, nearly nine years later, Young, now 50, is ready to command the Columbia space shuttle on its maiden voyage, scheduled for March. A former Navy jet pilot who retired in 1976 with the rank of captain, Young logged four trips into outer space between 1965 and 1972. His co-pilot in Columbia will be Robert Crippen, 43, a Navy captain and jet pilot. The two have more than 12,000 hours flying time and an almost boyish sense of excitement about getting the chance to control the most sophisticated flying machine ever built...