Word: rank
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Life returned to peace and profitability in the next few decades, as speculators and developers began to lay the base for the 19th century expansion that should turn Cambridge from a town into a city of the first rank. Andrew Craigie created East Cambridge out of almost nothing, purchasing acres of land through straw buyers on Lechmere Point. The success of his development was assured when he persuaded the county officials, over the loud protests of the "Old Cantabrigians," to move the county buildings to their present location, well out in East Cambridge. And the Neck was slowly being transformed...
Fortinsky said that O'Neill's call to Democratic Anderson supporters to rally behind Carter has had no effect on rank-and-file Democrats for Anderson, who are "very, very hostile towards the president...
Jerry S. Fortinsky '83, Anderson's Harvard coordinator and a Democrat, said yesterday that more than half of Anderson's campus workers are disaffected Democrats. He added that he expects even more rank-and-file Kennedy workers to join the independent, but said he believes many are "exhausted from the Kennedy push...
...current honeymoon period, they could not have done better than to rally around General Evren, who is described by a Western military expert in Turkey as "a father figure to his soldiers, an honest man with strong common sense." A native Anatolian, he is a stickler for rank and tradition; newsmen thought it was probably symbolic that they were carefully instructed to wear jackets and ties to his press conference last week. During the search for a new President over the past five months, Evren was suggested as a candidate but he turned down the idea, saying he would prefer...
...started big on Monday night with 70 million watching, and was still going strong at week's end as newspapers alertly provided daily plot summaries. The total audience: some 125 million. NBC President Fred Silverman may just turn his network around after all, and Shogōn may rank behind Roots I and II as television's most successful miniseries...