Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is more hatred of the Communist regime among the lower classes in Russia than among any other group, however. The biggest center of discontent is among the farmers; and collective farms rank with the secret police and Party controls as hated features of the regime...
NONCOMMISSIONED OFFICERS. In a bygone day, Army sergeants and Navy chief petty officers were important men, the backbone of their services. Now there are serious shortages of N.C.O.s in all the services. One reason: the importance of their rank has been steadily watered down. In their desire to reward technical specialists and keep men re-enlisting, the armed forces have passed out ratings far too liberally. Moves to "democratize" the services have also reduced the N.C.O.s' authority. With the resultant loss of respect for noncommissioned rank, many veteran N.C.O.s quit in disgust...
...indignant reply: "I will be unable to sign the contract the Metropolitan Opera Association has offered me ... Artistic dignity is not a matter of where one sings ... To assert that art can be found in the Metropolitan Opera House but not in a nightclub is a rank snobbery...
...performance was more uneven as other teams tried out the new rules. Among the surprises: ¶ University of Michigan, looking better than the preseason dope, scored five times in ten minutes, wound up smothering the University of Washington in an intersectional game, 50-0. ¶ Navy, which some experts rank as the top Eastern independent, steamed up & down the field against lightly regarded William & Mary, but never quite zeroed-in its attack, was lucky...
...Stars Licia Albanese and Jan Peerce (as Marguerite and Faust) brought down the house with their prison scene. Nonetheless, there was a sense of melancholy on both sides of the footlights: General Director Gaetano Merola, the man who founded the company 30 years ago and built it to second rank in the U.S. (after the Met), had died two weeks before the opening (TIME, Sept. 7). The prologue's angels sang their harmonies almost as a Requiem...