Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...buses he rattled across the Midwest and the Central American mountains, playing for peanuts, but always playing well. During seven seasons as a Dodger regular he has cheerfully suffered an extraordinary collection of broken bones, beanballs and assorted bruises. He has learned his trade so well that today oldtimers rank him with the best ever, with Bill Dickey and "Gabby" Hartnett, "Mickey" Cochrane and Roger Bresnahan...
...some 4,200 highly skilled contestants, not one was able to rank the pulling power of seven circulation letters mailed to potential subscribers during a five-week test period...
With half a dozen major legislative items, e.g., the highway construction and public-housing programs, still hanging fire, the leaders of the U.S. House of Representatives gave up in their efforts to adjourn by the end of July, last week began aiming for Aug. 6. But among the rank and file there was a sure sign that virulent adjournment fever, symptomized by extreme irritability, had set in; two of the members came to blows...
...traitor was not Dreyfus. As a Jew, he made an excellent scapegoat. Even after the high command learned that the real traitor was Major Count Ferdinand Walsin-Esterhazy, decadent scion of the aristocratic Hungarian family, they tried to cover up their mistake and even let Esterhazy keep his rank and assignment. Dreyfus' conviction touched off a wave of anti-Semitism that made it dangerous for anyone to doubt his guilt. But one general-staff officer, Lieut. Colonel Marie-Georges Picquart, found the truth more than his conscience could stand, although he cordially disliked Dreyfus. Novelist Emile Zola ripped into...
Sensitively written, directed and acted, The Shrike is a depressing experience but will probably rank on many counts as one of the year's outstanding movies. Like a long-burning fuse, it mounts a harrowing suspense throughout. But with the woeful situation still sizzling grimly at the end, some may feel cheated of a relieving explosion...