Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With two to five of the 20 varsity positions going to freshmen, according to the wishes of Coach Ford, Malkin's spot was extremely precarious, or so he thought, estimating his rank on the totem pole as 19th or 20th among upperclassmen...
Stokowski ousted exactly seven years later, when he was hired to co-direct the New York Philharmonic with Dmitri Mitropoulos. The flamboyant Stokowski, whose glamorous life was already shrouded in mystery, melted even further away from the public eye at that point, as his "permanent" associations with first-rank orchestras died and offers to guest conduct diminished. Quite naturally, Stokowski's sudden death last week elicited a mixed bag of memories of the figure so dynamic and controversial that the verb "to Stokowski-ize" nearly became part of our language...
They are lowly sergeants, the bottom rank for most seniors at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Yet they seemed delighted to be wearing their dull gold sergeants' chevrons on their gray dress uniforms, and to be lining up on the plain overlooking the Hudson River with the rest of the 4,479-member corps of cadets as classes resumed last week. They are 98 cadets who were expelled from the Point a year ago in the biggest cheating scandal in its 175-year history...
...twelve-month rule was the hottest issue at Blackpool. Veteran union leaders who support it were jeered by the militant rank and file; one union chief, National Union of Mineworkers President Joe Gormley, was spat upon and called a "scab" by demonstrators. It was left to the Prime Minister himself, a trades-union member for four decades, to make the most effective case for wage restraint. In a forceful, televised sermonette, Callaghan pointed out that wage increases above 10% would "seriously weaken" the government's chances of containing inflation. "I was brought up to believe that free collective bargaining...
With Joe Goodreault and Craig Beling, the probable starters, with Joe Jason and Rank Russo, who could also start with nary a drop in talent, filling the holes at the linebacker positions, Harvard has little worry there...