Word: ranke
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last month the commissars of Leningrad, Armenia and Tula disappeared. More recently the Minister of Agriculture, Ivan Benediktov, was publicly denounced. Last week's announcement named six ministers and MVD generals to stand trial with Beria on charges of "high treason." They were all of Cabinet rank...
Someone ventures a suggestion. "Oh no, I don't agree," says Montgomery, even though the someone may be of exalted rank. "Not the case at all. That's not professional." His eye swings around the room. "Let's hear what Admiral Mountbatten has to say about that. Dickie! Dickie! Ah, there you are. Let's hear what you think...
...word with the Colonel before, though she well recognized his commanding presence. "Where are the dolls?" asked the Colonel sternly. Knowing nothing of the dolls, but thinking of the sea of empty desks around her, the flustered receptionist blurted out: "They've all just gone to lunch." Rank impertinence, the Colonel later thundered to his aides: off with her head. But later he calmed down, agreed not to fire the receptionist and approved the circulation plan. Last week the results of the Colonel's approval were apparent in the Trib's Christmas season ads for its doll...
...members of these Red run unions are Communists themselves; only the bosses are. Why then do loyal American workers keep them in power? The chief reason is that rank & filers really believe that their leaders deliver the goods. Attacks on their loyalty are brushed off as union-busting propaganda...
Among the many books on art, two were achievements of the first rank. One was the U.S. appearance of the first four volumes of the British Pelican History of Art, a 48-volume project. The other was Andre Malraux's The Voices of Silence, a brilliant if tantalizingly subjective musing on art through the ages. In a year when books on flying saucers and interplanetary travel became commonplace, Jonathan Norton Leonard brought the subject back to earth in his informed and sensible Flight into Space. For humor it was a sad, unsmiling period. Thurber Country, a book of characteristic...