Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME for snapping Lieut. Colonel Thayer's girdle. It reassures our confidence in leadership to see the Air Force so effectively buttress itself. Social champagne commissionings in the Pentagon boost the morale of the guys in Korea, especially anybody with less rank than lieutenant colonel . . . Best of all, this is swell strategy: when that company of fighting Chinese Communist females find out, they'll vamoose, fearing a barrage of empty champagne bottles from the "colonel's" plane...
...Molly's" WAF commission is a "rank" insult to the many intelligent service women in all the branches who have had to earn their commissions the hard way ... I suggest that on her next gift ride from the taxpayers, they take her up 30,000 feet sans oxygen and sans girdle, put her into a spin and let her bring it out herself...
Last June General MacArthur ordered Nozaka, Shiga and 22 other Red leaders expelled from political life. They went underground. Leaderless, the party rank & file began to drift away...
...hurdles and may better him before the season is through. Neil Stuart and Bill Glendinning round out the group, either able to show up well in competition. Another six feet high jump man is Brian Reynolds. New comer Dan Whitecomb hasn't been in a meet yet, but should rank with Reynolds and Smith when he does...
Thousands of rank & file union men were angry at going almost three years without a wage raise (largely because their bosses couldn't agree on a few technical details). They were angry, too, at being called unpatriotic. In their anger, they were willing to be mean. So, suddenly, they decided to go in for the mass lie. The pattern of the phony epidemics changed from day to day. On some railroads the wildcatters began drifting back after a few days, but when they did, more reported sick elsewhere. At St. Louis strikers had "tonsillitis"; at Detroit they guessed, soberly...