Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Finally wise to Cambridge's electoral tom-foolery--a complicated voting system called proportional representation in which voters rank their choices numerically--the Independents banded together forming a slate of candidates for the first time...
Avoiding Disaster. Although the details were still obscured by censorship, the bridgehead made by an Israeli armored force across the southern sector of the canal may rank as the most brilliant military feat in the country's short but tempestuous history. In the end, Egypt may well have agreed to a ceasefire because it realized that to continue fighting would lead to another disaster...
...postwar government of Clement Atlee. The new nationalization would include land for industrial and residential development, the trucking industry, shipbuilders, parts of the drug, machine-tool and construction industries, as well as the new North Sea oil and gas development. Although the new Labor platform is popular with the rank and file, it is clearly the fuzziest scheme for economic change since George McGovern's 1972 welfare program. Roy Jenkins, Wilson's former Chancellor of the Exchequer, expressed doubt about the plan. "It is no good taking over a vast number of industries without knowing...
...desert, Egyptian and Israeli armored units fought deadly battles, often at point-blank range. On the first day of mobilization, Israeli Journalist David Halevy, a reserve rank lieutenant colonel, hurried from Tel Aviv to his reconnaissance battalion in the Sinai. By the second afternoon of the war, the reserve unit was in place at El Qantara, but it was unable to break through Egyptian lines to reach the bigger force it was assigned to support. Halevy later reported to TIME: "We were fighting in the area opposite Ismailia and the Firdan ridge. The Egyptian artillery was thick. Our tanks picked...
...DOLL'S HOUSE. Joseph Losey's version of the Ibsen classic is frosty and severe, embellished with several clumsy contemporary asides about the injustices heaped on women. It has the vigor and passion of commitment, however, and the cast is superb. Trevor Howard's Dr. Rank is gruffly tender; Delphine Seyrig's Kristine, a woman of tentative but dependable dignity; and Edward Fox's Krogstad, a figure of understandable desperation. David Warner makes Torvald into a complex, insidious but always human figure. It is a performance of the foremost skill and intelligence, and includes...