Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this is one of the Bard's most poorly constructed works, it still has a good many strong points. A great number of profoundly wise statements are constantly being made; there are plenty of well-turned phrases; and some of the passages of verse rank with his best...
...Frank Dorn, pinned stars on the collar of "Major" Stewart's soiled fatigue uniform. Cinemactor Stewart, a World War II bomber pilot and group commander (20 missions), had just got word from Washington that the Senate Armed Services Committee had unanimously approved his promotion to real-life brigadier rank. His upgrading had been blocked since 1957 by Maine's unyielding Republican Senator Margaret Chase Smith, his own light-colonel sister (retired) in Air Force arms. Colonel Smith last week dropped her opposition to Jimmy Stewart. The Defense Department assured the committee that active Pilot Stewart will...
...Pardue continues to deserve a place among the top rank of contemporary organists. She has on more than one occasion proved herself to be a finer musician than many of the organists with a big reputation. Her playing last night was about as close to being note-perfect as any live organ recital I can recall. She manifested facile fingers, fleet feet, and fluid phrasing. Her choice of registration was always judicious, effective, and appropriate to the style and period of the pieces she performed. And there was none of the dreary or mechanical dispiritedness that characterizes so much organ...
...looking for an honest man would find happier hunting in Pakistan today. Under the brisk reforming broom of President Ayub Khan's military regime, corrupt officials of the old, free-spending order are being swept out of office in droves, and newspapers run regular casualty lists, stating name, rank, misdemeanor and punishment. New Chevrolets, once a man's conspicuous mark of distinction in Karachi streets, are now hidden away in garages, and one businessman even painted his fire-engine-red station wagon a dull grey, happy to have it no longer "an eye-catcher." A strolling policeman...
...from the nation's steel mills last week marched 30,000 wildcat strikers, defying the two-week truce in steel framed by President Eisenhower. Thus did the rank and file put pressure on management for a settlement. United Steelworkers' President David J. McDonald, who had just appealed for "some negotiating statesmanship." immediately ordered the wildcatters back to work. But the short walkouts at major mills such as U.S. Steel's Fairless works and Jones & Laughlin's plant at Aliquippa, Pa. cut holiday week output to about 80% capacity...