Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trouble with the Yankees was deeper. They had only two first-rank stars, Tommy Henrich and Joe DiMaggio, and both were slowing down. On top of that, DiMaggio's right heel had not healed to his satisfaction after last fall's operation for a bone spur. Said DiMag last week: "There's no use kidding anybody, my heel still hurts." Without the big guy, the Yankees would be in peril of the second division; even with him, they would be lucky to stay ahead of 86-year-old Connie Mack's young, ambitious Philadelphia Athletics...
Chuck got his wings in March 1943 as a flight officer, a warrant rank below the level of the commissioned officers. He joined the 363rd Fighter Squadron and went to England in December. The timid boy from Hamlin flew 64 combat missions, shot down 13 German airplanes, won a captaincy and a hatful of decorations...
...McInnis has taught his apprentices to think and to field. He has a tremendous store of knowledge behind his sunburned, deadpan face. If he can draw from it to develop one more pitcher to match Godin, he will rank as a class A magician--not to mention coach...
...Army Recruits Clarence R. Hill and George R. Jones had an ungovernable weakness for dice, whisky and buxom frauleins. After three years of service they held the Army's lowliest rank. When they returned to their company in December after their latest trip over the hill (the second AWOL for Hill, the fourth for Jones), their commanding officer clamped them under quarters arrest at Straubing, Bavaria. Incensed at such unfeeling treatment, they broke out and vanished again. This time they had higher adventure and deeper trouble than they bargained...
Taciturn, thirtyish Edgar Cardona is what Costa Ricans call a "finger soldier" -i.e., a soldier who has received his rank through favoritism ("Somebody points a finger at you and says: 'You're a corporal; you're a captain; you're a colonel.'"). In last year's civil war, Cardona was a colonel. Afterwards, Junta President Jose Figueres kept him on as Security Minister, even though he took to hobnobbing around San Jose with the President's conservative enemies...