Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Giovanni: the Italian equivalent of Don Juan who, having seduced over 1000 women before the opera starts, goes on to seduce a few more before he's packed off to hell. Diaz says that he tries to portray this character as a glorious rebel rather than as a rank scoundrel, adding. "From a chauvinistic point of view you could say, look at all the women he made happy! Apparently he was an irresistible character--a terrific lover, a wonderful human being, at least for those few minutes or hours or days which he chose to spend with these assorted ladies...
Cole's complaint deals with an order introduced jointly by Danehy and Clinton in the City Council on February 3, which required City Manager James L. Sullivan to appoint Cambridge Police Lieutenant Alfred Lange to the rank of captain. The order was passed by the council by a 5-4 vote...
...Oscars. Television has cooled us off so much that we forget that there is something going on, live when we watch the Awards. Three thousand people are sitting on tacks, and it's not because they're worried about prestige--they're worried about their lives, their salaries, their rank in the Hollywood hierarchy. The winner of the Best Picture of the Year award is likely to double, maybe triple its gross profits in the months following the show. A Best Actor can ask for a half-million dollars plus percentage of the profits in his next movie. A Best...
...visited by a Crimson editor. The editor identified himself as Dan Swanson, and explained that he had occupied my room the year before, and wanted to talk to me about Harvard. My roommates and I were flattered, but also a trifle suspicious. Why should someone of such exalted journalistic rank want to speak to such...
...started to push, looking into my eyes without saying a word until his friends led him off. At the harbor, the troops withdrawn from Hue disembarked in mixed units, arriving in the confused state of a total rout. Enlisted men and officers alike dispensed with the niceties of rank or discipline. No one saluted, no one marched or regrouped. They just got off and wandered into town with their friends...