Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would be accompanied on my cross-country tour [of the U.S.] by Mr. Henry Cabot Lodge [then Ambassador to the U.N.]. Lodge was a middle-aged man-tall and strapping. He told me he'd been an officer in the war. According to our system, his rank would have been major general. Lodge and I got to know each other well. He was a clever man, but I can't say the same for the policies he's always stood for. I'd say he is an intelligent official of a not-so-intelligent government. When...
...Lodge," I once said, "you're a former military man, and therefore you know the rules of rank. You're a major general and I'm a lieutenant general. Therefore you're my subordinate, and I'll expect you to behave as befits a junior officer...
...advocate of well-balanced liberal arts education, she resigned in 1966 to head tiny Lady Doak College in Madurai, India, a country she had never seen. She later became Minister-Counselor of Public Affairs in the U.S. embassy in New Delhi, the first woman ever to hold that diplomatic rank...
...discover in high-energy transportation: inhuman times scarcity, massive space consumption, invidious class conflict and the consequent psychic and social frustration. He incisively explains how this "raindance of continuing acceleration" increasingly determines the schedule of daily life, the geography of social space, the correlation of speed with socio-economic rank and the very quality of human existence: "Past a certain threshold of energy consumption for the fastest passenger, a worldwide class structure of speed capitalists is created. The exchanges value of time becomes dominant, and this is reflected in language: time is spent, saved, invested, wasted and employed. As societies...
Blacks and Chicanos are also particularly prone to alcoholism, possibly for similar reasons. Among whites, the Irish Americans probably rank highest on the alcoholic scale. No one can explain precisely why, although Irish American social life has often centered around the pub or bar, and heavy drinking has been a culturally accepted means for temporarily getting away from problems. Jews, by contrast, have a relatively low incidence of alcoholism, though it is rising among them too. Jews have always frowned on public drunkenness as being a bad reflection on their entire culture, and drinking has not been the accepted...