Word: rankest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pauker [TIME, Sept. 20] is no cover girl-not even for the rankest Communist's money ... I have felt that to make the cover of TIME should be somewhat of an honor. Surely we must have in our own country true Americans [who] could more profitably take up the time of your capable artists...
...long as the war was on in Europe, UNRRA was the rankest stepchild at the combined United Nations food-&-supply table. It got only what the military and Lend-Lease did not want, and it had to fight to get that. Its allocations from the various combined boards in Washington were merely "hunting licenses" to get the allocated supply if UNRRA could find it lying around loose...
...days, official Washington attempted to play down the conference. At his press conference, Secretary Stimson twinkled to reporters: "You thought you saw the President [at the Pentagon] when you only saw his astral body." Yet the rankest cub reporter knew that something big was cooking, and the rumors began, to fly. And not all the rumors were wild: some of the information came from unquestionably well-informed-although unnamed-sources. The hottest report: Heinrich Himmler had offered to surrender unconditionally to the U.S. and Great Britain...
...have been deeply disturbed by some of the recent reports concerning the [Dumbarton Oaks] conference. These indicate that it is planned to subject the nations of the world, great and small, permanently to the coercive power of the four nations holding this conference. . . . That would be the rankest form of imperialism. . . . The ideals for which we are fighting . . . must not be lost in a cynical peace by which any four powers dominate the earth by force...
...sentiment "What is the matter with U.S. women?" seems to me to be the rankest sort of injustice. Before our record can justly be compared with that of British and Russian women, our Government will have to do three things which the British and Russian Governments did long...