Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...child. She made her first public appearance when she was eight. At 18, she completed her formal training, began as a soloist, and over the years danced her supple way to stardom in Leningrad and at Moscow's Bolshoi Theater, where she has been a top-ranking ballerina for six years. She has become famous for her roles in Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Giselle, Romeo and Juliet. For her poetic warmth based on flawless technique, critics lucky enough to have seen her dance rank her with Pavlova...
Retouched Portrait. As a personal narrative, General Bradley's A Soldier's Story is basically like many others already told by U.S. generals in World War II: long peacetime years of low rank, low pay and routine chores; then in middle life, such command opportunities as they had never dreamed of. Many fine peacetime officers failed in combat (no one fired them more ruthlessly and properly, for cause, than Bradley), and perhaps no one would have been surprised if Bradley had failed too. After 32 years in the Army, he was past 50 when he heard his first...
...Training: 6 weeks basic at Parris Island, South Carolina with rank of Corporal during first summer. Then, 6 weeks advanced at Parris Island, South Carolina with rank of Sergeant during second summer. (Note: commission contingent on receipt of degree. Candidate must not have reached his 25th birthday by July 1st of year he receives degree). Finally, active duty for 21 months...
...entirely the responsibility of the student," Kennedy warned, "to give or send the University three copies of the form as soon as possible. Harvard will then certify a man's presence at college and indicate his rank in his class...
Died. Field Marshal Sir Thomas Albert Blarney, 67, Australia's top soldier, second Dominion man (after Jan Smuts) to attain field marshal rank; after long illness; in Melbourne. After a spell as Deputy Commander in Chief in the Middle East during World War II, he brought his rugged Australian "desert rats" back to the Southwest Pacific, mopped up Jap-infested islands that were bypassed in the Allied advance...