Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There were two new faces in the list of the 20 biggest U.S. cities-Seattle and Houston. Houston, in fact, had jumped from 21st to 14th. The first 20 (1940 rank in parentheses...
...have always been a nationalist, never a Communist. Until the Americans recognized the Emperor, I was not convinced that Viet Nam was really going to be independent. Many others would like to escape. But even important functionaries may not travel without a special permit. Only my ministerial rank allowed me to make a wide tour of inspection in northern Tonkin. I managed to get to the village where I was born, hid out there, and surrendered when a French patrol came along...
...aggressor will alternately press and quell the crises, hoping to hold the signatory powers in perpetual irresolution. But irresolution ... is born of fear and selfishness, and of such meanness that all despise it. Our rise to leadership must be attended with such courage as will ever give it first rank in the history of great actions...
...flaws are such minor ones as Dimitri Tiomkin's musical score, which is so overexcited that it sometimes gets in the way of the action. Director Fred (The Search) Zinneman's sensitive work clearly places him in the first rank of screen directors. The film is full of fine performances, especially by Actors Sloane and Webb and Actress Wright. Broadway's Marlon Brando, in his first movie appearance, does a magnificent job. His halting, mumbled delivery, glowering silences and expert simulation of paraplegia do not suggest acting at all; they look chillingly like the real thing...
Morse's deadpan conclusion: in addition to insuring respectability, following these general rules is often enough to guarantee a man a lifetime career in the rank of instructor or even, perhaps, assistant professor...