Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...criminal adventurers" like Ryumin; as a result, the Minister of State Security had "broken away from the people and the party," and therefore has been fired from his new job. The Soviet government, Pravda added, as if speaking in Beria's name, "punishes without regard for person or rank those who permit arbitrary action...
Toohy, a member of the University police force since 1935, has also been promoted to the rank of Captain, and will doff his uniform in favor of civilian clothes...
...police chief, who is 50 years old, worked at the College during the '30's is a watchman-policeman position, and was promoted to the rank of lieutenant...
...these realms, worn so gloriously by her husband and by her son and so soon to be set with solemnity on the head of her granddaughter, is far more broadly and securely based on the people's love . . . than in the sedate days of her youth, when rank and privilege ruled society...
...Paulo, Brazil's No. 2 city (pop. 2,500,000), rose in wrath last week and repudiated their political bosses. In a municipal election that was supposed to be a rubber-stamping of the government's choice for mayor, they voted 2-to-1 for a rank outsider. Then they launched a wave of sudden strikes that threatened to paralyze the whole metropolis...