Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...correct when he says that the right of privacy is an essential part of freedom. I cherish this freedom as greatly as he and would defend as staunchly as he the right of privacy for a private individual. But the only thing private about G. David Schine is his rank in the Army. It was not I who chose to make Mr. Schine a public figure; I would have much preferred to have seen him remain in private life as the president of a hotel chain. But he is now much more, and it was Schine himself who purposely decided...
General Shepherd considered the court's recommendation that Red torture tactics called for a study of some new instructions to servicemen to replace the order that prisoners give no information other than name, rank and serial number...
...Best Safeguard. Based on the experience in Korea, Shepherd decided that "the best safeguard," both for prisoners themselves and for the national interest, is to give no more than name, rank and serial number. He noted nevertheless that in Korea "those seemed to have fared best who talked the least...
...trekked 6,000 miles in 368 days to the northwest to escape Chiang's armies. One writer described him in those days: "His chin veiled by a black beard, Chou would ride a bristle-maned Mongolian pony out through the stone arches of Yenan. His only badge of rank as he cantered through the yellow hills were the caps of two fountain pens peeping out of the breast pocket of his shirt...
Insofar as he knew anything, Lord Lucan knew that someone had blundered, and he would have liked to discuss the matter with Lord Cardigan. But the two peers were not only rank amateurs in war; for 30 years they had scarcely exchanged a word. So now Lord Lucan coldly ordered his brother-in-law "to advance down the . . . Valley with the Light Brigade." To which Lord Cardigan replied equally coldly: "Certainly, sir; but allow me to point out . . . that the Russians have a battery ... on our front, and batteries and riflemen on both sides...