Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Arriving in Rio de Janeiro for this week's regional conference of U.S. diplomats in South America, State Department Counselor George Kennan and Assistant Secretary of State Edward Miller received greetings in the Stalinist manner from the Communist newspaper Tribuna Popular. With a nice feeling for rank and function, Tribuna called Kennan "an international bandit," Miller "a male Mata Hari...
When World War II came, U.S. Citizen John Aiso entered the U.S. Army as a private, rose to lieutenant colonel, highest rank attained by any Nisei...
...integral part of the cold war-the logical extension of Bob Vogeler's trial. An international train passing through the wild mountain country of U.S.-occupied Austria could be the perfect place to murder a diplomat who had probed too deeply behind the Iron Curtain. Karpe's rank was high enough to leave the impression they want: maybe they can't arrest and try foreign attaches, but they can take care of them just the same, the way they took care of Karpe...
...Nepal's Prime Ministers are born to their rank, and succession passes from brother to brother and brother to nephew...
...Astonished Heart (J. Arthur Rank; Universal-International) returns Britain's Noel Coward to the screen in the double role of scenarist and star.' For a while, it seems cause for mild celebration. Coward still handsomely fills a Mayfair drawing room with the glitter of verbal bric-a-brac. But when he begins using the stagy artifice of his comedies in behalf of a plot that combines half-baked psychiatry with bogus tragedy, even his admirers are likely to blush...