Word: rank
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Williams homered in his final at-bat, when the Boston fans failed to draw him back out of the dugout for the purest reason, put perfectly by John Updike, that "gods do not answer letters." In mortal and modern contrast, Guy Lafleur, a Montreal Canadien once of the highest rank, lingered several aimless shifts before exiting last month as sheepishly as former Pittsburgh Running Back Franco Harris, who was bluffing along a few extra downs in Seattle. Babe Ruth limped away in midstream too, so departures of this sort are hardly new. Still, there is an impression that boxing...
...proposal by the leaders of Yale's striking clerical and technical workers union to return temporarily to work has angered rank-and-file members of the AFL-CIO local...
...opinion molders and political strategists who have been so influential for so long are obviously at odds with ordinary people. The Democratic Party's frustration with its rank and file was evident when Geraldine Ferraro went before autoworkers and students in the Midwest and West and became almost accusatory in her professed bafflement over why they preferred Reagan. Ferraro's tone suggested that she viewed her listeners as hapless innocents beguiled by a pitchman into breaking their longstanding contract with the Democrats. Ferraro had discovered the world beyond the Hudson and Potomac rivers...
...painting of a cheetah that had been sent to London as a gift to George III from a former governor-general of Madras. It is a marvel of detached observation. In straightforwardness and dignity, unblemished by caricature, the heads of the animal's two Indian handlers rank with Rubens' famous studies of an African black. The evocation of substance, from the hair of the cheetah-done in a rippling amber pelt of short directional strokes interspersed with broader whiskery featherings-to the play of light on the white turbans and dhotis, is breathtaking...
...years after riding the 1982 bull market for $200 million in gams, Harvard's endowment, hurt by weak stock and bond markers, rank $1 30 million to $2 324 billion over the seat ending June 30, University officials said this week...