Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grateful. He insisted over and over that only his resignation from Labor's shadow Cabinet at the first mention of a Southeast Asia Treaty Organization had restrained Clement Attlee and indirectly, Anthony Eden, from plunging ahead and bringing on a world war. Stubbornly he reiterated that the rank and file supported him, that the Labor leadership was wrong...
Hoettl, a graduate student in Vienna University when he entered the secret service, rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel and claims to have been a big espionage wheel, but his book and his personal history betray him as more of a pinwheel. In The Secret Front, he twirls about in windy draughts of gossip, secondhand information, hero worship, pure invention and long-fermented spite...
...problem. But his first acts in power were to 1) form a three-man junta that included a vocal antiCommunist, 2) outlaw the Communist Party and 3) fire Colonel Rogelio Cruz Wer, head of Guatemala's notorious police and the Reds' only important sympathizer of high military rank...
...says you cannot do fishing.-In our country we fish where we like. We have no private property." And there was something else: "Here only a narrow stratum of society can go in for rowing. It requires much money. This is not the case in our country. Just rank-and-file people, ordinary workers can do rowing in the Soviet Union." As regatta day neared, the Soviet's ordinary, working oarsmen stepped up their training. Russian binoculars flashed in the sun along the Thames, and stopwatches clicked when rival crews came out to practice. Explained Vladimir Kuchmenko, head...
Since the oil-forming sediments and the underlying salt sweep beyond the coastline where domes abound, the oil geologists reasoned that there should be domes under the Gulf, too. They took their instruments to sea and found that the salt domes march, rank upon rank, to the edge of the continental shelf, more than 100 miles from land...