Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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NATO (12 nations), meeting in Rome. The rank and brass of the North Atlantic alliance assembled in what used to be known as the Foro Mussolini, a flamboyant pile of buildings, Gargantuan statues and stone slabs commemorating Fascist triumphs. Heading the yoman U.S. delegation: three cabinet members (Acheson, Lovett and Snyder) and the nation's top ranking soldier, General Omar Bradley...
...rank & file Filipinos, he has become a national hero. To his boss, President Quirino, he has become at times an embarrassment but, day in & day out, his party's best asset. To the opposition, he has become an unexpected Good Samaritan for keeping the polls free (they gave him an admiringly inscribed copy of Peace of Mind). To the Western world, too often handicapped in its outer reaches by propped-up Bao Dais and Syngman Rhees, he has brought a glimmer of hope for democracy in the Orient...
...University made no further explanation of the type of defense work Bingham would enter. During World War II, Bingham was commissioned as a major and served as Director of Security and intelligence until 1945, when he was discharged with the rank of lieutenant colonel...
...charity of friends, Gomez, now 61, appeared in Mexico City and demanded that the Defense Department give him a lieutenant colonel's pay of 1,000 pesos a month. The department refused, on the grounds that Gomez was a finger officer, i.e., an officer who got his rank when Villa pointed a finger and said, "You are a colonel." Replied Gomez with dignity: "I won my rank the hard way... A man such as I, who has died, at least has the right to eat daily." But at week's end, he was still eating by the charity...
...when he began teaching at Bonn in 1948, the university soon found that it liked what he had learned about U.S. ways of education. Students flocked to his seminars, crowded into his lectures, and Richter himself rose to the rank of dean of the philosophy faculty. Said one student: "He is the only professor with a universal approach. The others keep their eyes glued to their specialty...