Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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POSSIBLY, Salvador Allende was a great man, one who will rank forever as a hero of the world's people. Certainly, he was a brave and dedicated man, whose acts, even to the end, never swerved from his ideals. But most of all, Salvador Allende was a good and decent man, a simpatico hombre, whose agony at the suffering he saw about him was matched only by his smiling determination to banish it from Chile forever...
...Ford characters patriots? When World War II came along, despite a personal battle with blindness, Ford volunteered for overseas duty. He directed the Navy's film documentary unit, received a machine-gun wound at the battle of Midway, gathered evidence for the Nuremberg trials and retired with the rank of rear admiral in the Reserves...
...years ago, Sociologist John Seeley wrote: "The young are seemingly America's Number One love, Number One enemy, Number One public problem and Number One private preoccupation." Today the young would rank way down on almost anybody's list of preoccupations...
...newsletter and former New York Times food critic: "The hamburgers are quite swallowable. There is a highly compatible onion flavor. The French fries are first-rate; they are made in fresh fat and are crisp. I do think they could put more pickle on the hamburger. Overall, I would rank them on a par with Howard Johnson's hamburgers...
...Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, he was subtly but unmistakably rebuked for his performance by both the President and Vice President. The separately delivered scoldings only underscored the anomaly of his uncomfortable middleman's position: Richardson is charged with overseeing investigations of the only two federal executives who rank above...