Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stuff is fateful political decision made. This week, when Britain's Labor Party meets in its Scarborough conference, it faces a close and bitter division on the most urgent such decision before the West-the rearming of Germany. A Labor delegate, an advocate of German rearmament fighting fierce rank-and-file opposition, said on the eve of the conference: "Senator McCarthy may well decide this vote. All he stands for-all his identification with American policy in the eyes of average people-will force something between 500,000 and 1,000,000 votes to go against the direction...
...Markham this spring completed her 11th year as an assistant professor at the Medical School. This is the limit at this rank and she was not in line for promotion. Fine's was a one-year appointment and he was not seeking re-employment...
...sure, in the days when, according to a pious correspondent, "this hath been a place certainly more free from temptations to lewdness than ordinarily England has been . . .',, locking the gates was sure-fire, but the College has since spread out a little. Rank riot and excess in the form of Cambridge streets awaits every sophomore, junior, and senior who leaves his room. The subway stands ready to rocket inmates of the Houses into "the company and society of such men who lead an ungirt and dissolute life," and all the chained gates in Cambridge cannot revive President Chauncey...
...ended their all-out campaign and fired John Dwyer. When Dwyer protested, they ignored his letters and hung up on phone calls. Last week Dwyer bitterly told his men to "forget about the A.F.L, and go back to the I.L.A." Brusquely, the I.L.A. snubbed Dwyer and said A.F.L. rank-and-filers could come back only if they paid up back dues. For a happy ending dockers could go to the movies...
Frederick W. (for William) Richmond is a slim, sandy-haired ex-Navyman who at the age of 30 has achieved the rank of tycoon (j.g.). In three short years, Bachelor Richmond (with the help of various associates) has built up a string of seven companies producing everything from machine tools to pots and pans, with an estimated value of $30 million. He has become, as one business acquaintance calls him, "a speculator in companies"-specifically companies that can be bought for less than their asset value. In pursuit of this goal, young Richmond has tapped corporate pension funds, which...