Word: ranked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...campaign style consists of a strained smile and straight-arm salute, came from way behind to swamp Republican State Senator Ray Bateman, who tripped up in trying to propose an alternative to the unpopular state income tax. Virginia's Republican Lieutenant Governor John Dalton easily moved up in rank by beating Democrat "Howlin' " Henry Howell, a big-business-baiting populist who can make the Lord's Prayer sound like Lenin's urging an assault on the Winter Palace...
...turned 77 last week, summoned his 130-man wage-scale committee to the new talks, at New York's Downtown Athletic Club, and there were rumors that the shippers were feeling pressures to enable the walkout to end. Any deal, however, would have to be approved by the rank and file, so containers will not begin moving immediately and the shortages will last a bit longer...
...commitment to the One and Only Being, admitting Him as the sole dispenser of one's fate. Coming to pay tribute to the Creator, the pilgrim is no longer a subject of any state, system or regime, rather he transcends these restrictive impositions to a higher and more universal rank. On this level all are equal in their subjugation and God rules supreme...
...total, projected by Washington's Consumer Product Safety Commission, is double last year's and really moves skateboarding high up there on the list of hazardous leisure activities. For the first time, it is expected to result in more injuries than nonprofessional football (370,000) and will rank second only to bicycling accidents (with 90 million cyclists, 1.2 million injuries are anticipated for 1977). Fatalities are still a skateboarding rarity; the commission has noted only 24 in the past four years, the result of head injuries or collision with automobiles. The major causes of all those accidents...
...conceded that he could not guarantee the loyalty of all the 4,000 delegates expected to attend the congress. Despite a vigorous, yearlong purge of opponents of his regime, there is still some resistance?ranging from mute dissent to downright rebellion?on every level of the ruling bureaucracy. Even rank-and-file party members?traditionally the backbone of a Communist state ?are suspect. Analysts note that party membership rose from 21 million to 35 million in the past decade, when the Gang of Four was riding at its highest point. Perhaps as many as 10 million of those...