Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...each side." After his car's faulty battery had been repaired by mechanics at Buckingham Palace, Mark set off to rejoin his regiment. The Dragoons may be heading next for Northern Ireland, but not likely with Mark. He is going to become an instructor at Sandhurst, with the rank of acting captain and a salary of $6,625 a year...
...true that some of Lovecraft's stories on the Cthulu Mythos - The Call of Cthulu, At the Mountains of Madness - rank high among the horror sto nes of the English language. But Great Cthulu only knows why perfectly good, independent writers from the late Au gust Derleth to Colin Wilson have seized and elaborated on the Mythos in their work...
...constituted has one basic flaw which will keep it generating disappointed crops of students year after year. This flaw is the quota system. Under the quota system, individuals' House preferences are ignored if they don't fit into the right criteria concerning high school background, area of concentration, and rank in class...
Whatever their rank, all carnies stick to certain norms of behavior. The prime rule, Truzzi says, is that "you don't talk to the marks." Townspeople are chased away if they try to penetrate the off-midway areas where the carnies live in trailers and socialize in a tent usually called the G-top (because it is often used for gambling). Carnie youngsters are told to play with each other rather than with outsiders, and while unmarried carnie women are no longer forbidden to go into town without a male carnie escort, they are discouraged from getting to know...
...special tools, gears and awnings that will be needed. The Skylab astronauts have flown to Huntsville, where they have run repeated trials of the repair procedures in the simulated zero-G conditions of NASA'S water test tank. Indeed, the intense feeling among NASA'S rank and file reminded Astronaut John Swigert Jr. of the remarkable effort that enabled him and his Apollo 13 crew mates to bring their crippled spacecraft safely back to earth after an explosion. Said Swigert: "I think this incident will show that when the chips are down, we can turn a potential failure...