Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...still rank heresy to suggest that a great deal of the pother and nuisance caused by congressional investigations can be traced to one fundamental weakness of the U.S. Constitution of today, namely, its obsolescence ? When, in every other phase of American activity, there is continual renovation and change, it seems a pity that the people of the U.S. should be quite content with a rigid and antique political procedure...
...Only other to hold this internationally respected rank handed out by the Russian Imperial Ballet-and unused in the Soviet Union today-was Italy's Pierina Legnani, who startled the Russians with her famous 32 fouettés (whipping turns) in 1893. She died in 1923. Kchessinska, 81, still lives in Paris, with her husband, the Grand Duke André, 75. The Duke does the daily shopping while the Absolute Ballerina gives ballet lessons and does a little polite gambling on the side...
...with a Million (Rank; United Artists) is borrowed from a Mark Twain short story that dealt entertainingly with the fabled eccentricity of the British and the equally well-known resourcefulness of Americans. The film is an Anglo-American enterprise, directed by Ronald (The Promoter} Neame, written by Jill Craigie (wife of M.P. Michael Foot), and starring Hollywood's veteran Gregory Peck...
...moved off beneath a new Communist victory arch to three conference tents at the end of the runway. The Communists offered the Frenchmen tea with sugar, and Lucky Strikes. "They were very polite," said the helicopter pilot. "All they wanted was to be treated as soldiers according to their rank. But we didn't think very much about anything. The whole place was as silent as a graveyard, and when the wind kicked up, we could smell the death around...
...gang of screaming tribesmen, shooting pistols and poisoned arrows, attacked a veterinary inspector at Machakos. "We want your head!"they screamed, but Dick McCausland, with an arrow in his arm, valiantly fought them off and retained his head. The Wakamba, 600,000 strong, supply one-third of the rank & file, perhaps half the NCOs in both the Kenya police and the King's African Rifles. "If the Wakamba have now gone Mau Mau," gloomed one weary settler, "the position of Kenya may become desperate...