Word: rank
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Walter Fauntroy, a Congressional delegate from Washington, D.C., said that Chicago's election indicated that rank-and-file white Democrats "are not yet ready" to support national Black causes. Jesse Jackson, the civil rights leader, and Fauntroy affirmed their interest in mounting a Black presidential candidacy to shake up complacent white leaders...
Freeman refutes Mead's findings in Samoa on almost all counts: rank, aggressive behavior, religion and punishment, for instance. Contrary to popular belief, Freeman claims that the Samoans are not an easy going, forgiving, and relatively egalitarian people. Rather, they are aggressive, strict, somewhat pious, and, on occasion, belligerent and violent--not entirely unlike our own culture. More interesting are Freeman's chapters on sexual mores and behavior, and on adolescence. He concludes that the Samoans are in fact as uptight and troubled as adolescent Americans...
...Harvard's record to 3-2-1 and is the laxwomen's first victory in over a week. The Crimson bowed to Maryland and Princeton and tied Temple since beating Penn. Although the Eagles do not rank as highly as the Crimson's most recent competition, the squad had no trouble getting up for the game...
...deputy to Tikhonov who has been appointed under Andropov. At a meeting of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet last November, onetime Azerbaijan KGB Chief and Party Leader Geidar Aliyev, 59, was also moved into the government's ruling inner circle. Gromyko's elevation to the same rank as Aliyev may have been intended to check the ambitious Azerbaijani...
...published twelve novels. But he also labored successfully in Hollywood (eleven credits) during the period when movies became films, directors auteurs and screenplays the subjects of scholarly monographs. In discussing his own work for the people "Out There," he neither cringes nor crows: "In terms of authority, screenwriters rank somewhere between the man who guards the studio gate and the man who runs the studio (this week...