Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Titfield Thunderbolt (Rank; Universal-International) will carry railway enthusiasts on a satisfying junket through the past century of British railroading. When nationalization dooms the unprofitable branch line running from rural Titfield to the market town of Mallingford. the indignant citizens of Titfield take over the archaic rolling stock, with the vicar serving as engineer, the village ne'er-do-well as fireman, and a local squire as brakeman. An alcoholic landowner (Stanley Holloway) supplies the necessary money on being promised that the early-morning train will carry a bar-and-buffet...
...hero on the battlefield has never been made more clear. In Connecticut, in Canada, on Lake Champlain and at Saratoga, he fought with the kind of superb gallantry that lesser men might call foolhardy. But Arnold off the field was a different man. Vain, querulous and greedy, he loved rank at least as much as he loved his country, and was not above using his position to line his pocket through fishy and degrading commercial deals. That he betrayed his country for reasons of political principle, Author Flexner shows to be sheer nonsense. Arnold wanted cash on the barrelhead...
There is little of the frontier in Nock's background, however. Born in England and educated at Trinity in Cambridge, he came to Harvard at the age of 27. He was appointed a full professor a year later in 1930, the youngest man ever given such a rank at Harvard. Nock is not sure why he came to America or why he stayed on at Harvard. "Life has a habit of making decisions for you. You hesitate and then you just do a thing...
Paris, which a year ago had four U.S. officials with the rank of ambassador,* and was crowded with proliferating U.S. missions to NATO, EDC and OEEC, was the obvious place to begin. The State Department cut its staff 30%. Stassen also set to work. Half a dozen special agencies were lumped into one big U.S. Mission to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and European Regional Organizations (USRO). Two hundred Americans and 437 French employees were riffed in the process; the savings would cut USRO's administrative expenses in Paris by 50%. Other Americans suffered drastic cuts in what...
...plus four with the rank of minister...