Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Responsible Attleeites were still seething over Nye's performance next day when the results of partywide elections for membership in the new executive committee were announced. In the seven constituency elections, which are the best barometer of rank & file party sentiment, the Bevanites won six out of seven seats. Bevan himself got the biggest vote (965,000), followed by red-haired Barbara Castle (868,000) and cocky Tom Driberg (744,000). For the first time in 23 years, Attlee's faithful lieutenant, Herbert Morrison, the lifelong trade unionist who became Foreign Secretary, was voted off the executive...
...Bang's disease) turned up at the Knoxville, Ia. sales barn for regular sale. Beardsley's explanation: a hired man failed to carry out his orders to dispose of the cattle in a way that would not risk spread of the disease. Many Iowa livestock farmers, who rank the spreading of Bang's disease only slightly below murder, were not convinced by the explanation...
...Magic Box (J. Arthur Rank; Mayer-Kingsley) is a lavish tribute to British cinema's pioneer William Friese-Greene (played by Robert Donat), who went without recognition during his lifetime, and died in poverty in 1921. The picture, a highly polished, occasionally over-reverent document that was made for last year's Festival of Britain, enlists many of the outstanding names in British films. It has some 70 stars, from Michael Redgrave to Emlyn Williams, in bit roles. It was produced by Ronald (Great Expectations') Neame, directed by John (Seven Days to Noon) Boulting, photographed in Technicolor...
...Bracciano and Soana near Rome, the picture's cold, grey, documentary photography powerfully evokes a world of medieval desolation. At the same time, the picture glows with a warm lyricism. In its blend of tenderness and turbulence, Flowers of St. Francis is a film poem that deserves to rank with Rossellini's own Open City and Paisan...
...present criteria for deferment as an undergraduate are either a score of 70 percent or higher on the test, or a rank in the upper half of the freshman class, the upper two-thirds of the sophomore class, or the upper three-quarters of the junior class...