Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...South Vietnamese army, though far from first-rank efficiency, has demonstrated an increasing capacity to fight bravely and well...
...last two aspects of his talent are most in evidence in The Trials of Brother Jero and The Strong Breed, though the two one-acters rank among his lesser plays. Brother Jero is a broad spoof of a religious humbug, a con man of prophecy who lives by mulcting his worshipers, or "customers," as he calls them in moments of absent-minded lucidity. He preys on their hopes, fears and vices, his own trial and joy being inveterate womanizing...
...Columnist Dink Carroll wrote last month, when action in the expanded league got under way. Unexpected is certainly the word for what has happened since. The Chicago Black Hawks, who won the N.H.L. race by 17 points last year, have managed only three victories in twelve games this year, rank dead last in the East Division. Next, there is the curious collapse of Roger Crozier, the talented young (25) Detroit Red Wings goalie, who only three seasons ago was the N.H.L.'s Rookie of the Year; last week, after giving up 18 goals in three games, Crozier quit...
Feathered Engines. By any measure, Butcher and Seabrook already rank as big-time executives. A director of 26 companies, Butcher controls the largest 'single block of stock in the Pennsylvania Railroad, plus enough shares in the New York Central so that he would still control one of the largest holdings when the two lines merge. As senior partner of Philadelphia's Butcher & Sherrerd, he supervises $500 million in investments for some 400 clients...
...profession of the fornicatrix has fallen upon seedy days. Rank amateurs have driven out the pros, giving the career field a bad name, and today's courtesans would rather provide grist for the sociologist's mill than salt for the Sunday supplements...