Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...congratulate TIME for the article. The dedicated leadership, labor statesmanship and social philosophy of Walter Reuther have endeared him to the rank and file everywhere. By any standard of comparison he is the labor leader of the century...
...withdrawal threat caused Kingmaker Ringley no pain. The Ardery group's action still faces ratification by the rank and file of the Forty and Eight. Jim Ringley figures that the membership will repudiate its leaders. If he is right, that will be the end of Ardery as any sort of a force in Legion politics...
After a ten-hour debate, the bill was referred to three committees for revision. There the Bundestag's reservations will be written in, including a provision for screening all officer candidates above the rank of major. With these changes, Adenauer still has a chance of getting his bill through just in time for Geneva...
...range and subtlety, French cooking is the best in the world, and Escoffier may well rank France's most celebrated gastronomic names. He lacked the lavish glamor of Caréme, but surpassed him in austere art. He lacked the wit of Brillat-Savarin, but Brillat-Savarin was more gourmet than cook. He lacked the temperament of the great 17th century chef, Vatel, but was more imaginative. Vatel committed suicide, impaling himself on his sword because the sole did not arrive in time for an important dinner. When asked what he would have done in Vatel's place...
...Welles sleight-of-handed Caesar the role of a fascist. Hollywood's Joe Mankiewicz saw his Caesar as a kind of tired, pompous stockbroker. Shaw's hero in Caesar and Cleopatra is a worldly-wise but disenchanted superman whom power has made not mad, but sad. Front-rank Historical Novelist Duggan (The Little Emperors) throws dirt on these literary ghosts by spading straight for the facts and unearthing many a fascinating shard from ancient Roman political life...