Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...importance of the program, the President had summoned some top brass, including Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, Deputy Defense Secretary Donald Quarles, ICA Director John Hollister, and two Capitol Hill veterans now on Ike's foreign affairs staff, Democrats Walter George and James P. Richards. But neither rank nor frankness could move the leaders to show much enthusiasm for the foreign aid program. They were unimpressed when Ike reported that his foreign aid proposal could be slashed $500 million through economies in military purchasing. They were not much more impressed when he listed as his rock-bottom figures...
...apparent reason why the varsity should lose to the Middies, but if it allows itself to slip, the first boat will not even gets its chance for fame and fortune in the finals. The JV's have already been beaten by Syracuse but both Love and the seeding board rank them as favorites in this race...
...political reputation was the fact that he is a crackerjack lawyer. He led his Yale Law School class, edited the Law Journal, won an Order of the Coif (he was Phi Beta Kappa from his home-state University of Nebraska), and is still considered by two former deans to rank among the finest students in Yale history. In private practice he was a partner in Manhattan's Lord, Day & Lord for more than 20 years (resigning only to become Attorney General), and an expert in corporation law. He is the first to admit that he is essentially a counselor...
...Richmond this week the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts will hang two new acquisitions (see color page) that not only rank high as art but also provide a study in similarity and contrast. Both tell stories, both deal with famed warriors; and yet in treatment and technique they stand as far apart as cool, clear crystal from the warmth of flamboyant stained glass...
Reach for the Sky. (J. Arthur Rank). "Damn!" thought R.A.F. Cadet Douglas Bader (rhymes with ah'd her) as he lay in the smoking wreckage of his tiny biplane and inspected his shattered leg. "I won't be able to play rugger on Saturday." Cadet Bader was right. By Saturday both his legs were off. "Sssh!" he heard a nurse say. "There's a boy dying in there." The sick man stiffened. "Dying! We'll see," he thought grimly, and began to fight for his life...