Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...collision. Walker was thrown to the road. He was dead when an ambulance got him to a field hospital two miles away.* Viewing his father's shrouded body, Captain Sam Walker wept. General MacArthur revealed that he had recently recommended a promotion for Walker to the four-star rank of a full general...
Grim Jaws. I found few rank & file Yugoslavs who looked that far ahead with that much optimism. Why then do the people set their jaws grimly and bear the confusion and hardship? Apathy is part of the answer. It is easier to get along with the police state than to stand...
...truthful, and do as you did in 1938 when you named Hitler Man of the Year. Name World Enemy No. 1, Joe Stalin, Man of this Year. By doing so you may help shock the rank & file out of their inertia and into the realization of the serious situation confronting...
...under Hitler. Though its reporting devices got in its way as a novel, The Watt's story mosaic gave it a strong cumulative impact. In The Town, Conrad Richter finished a trilogy of fine, craftsmanlike novels about the Ohio Country pioneers. The trilogy put Richter in the first rank of historical novelists, though it started no stampede to the bookshops by fans of the frigate-bustle-&-bosom school...
...Reserve Commissions: Open to single or married men, 20 to 26, with education and Marine Corps service as in (b) above. If currently in the Reserve or honorably discharged, they must hold or have held the rank of corporal or higher. Former Army, Air Force, Navy or Coast Guard officers are eligible for reserve commissions...