Word: rankest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gala 13-nation trip, many months after The Ugly American appeared, the United States still has an ambassador in Paris who speaks German, no French, and an ambassador in Bonn who speaks French, no German. In addition, American embassies throughout the world are dotted with the rankest collection of amateurs that any diplomatic corps can boast...
...enthusiastic attitude. Kindness finds even stronger opposition at Harvard: even taken in its deepest sense, not as a wish to avoid causing pain, but as a constant consideration and valuation of feelings, it contradicts the most sacred critical canons. It is thought to be a sign of the rankest tender-mindedness and most erroneous subjectivity, a barrier to any sort of harsh truth...
...CRIMSON photographer works with the finest equipment and even the rankest amateur can develop into a first-rate photo editor with a little time and patience. A business editor has the responsibility of keeping a $100,000 a year concern in the black and his training at the CRIMSON has often proven valuable in later life...
...other Senator. Hardly any have supported him in his quest for the presidency. Many feel that he has shamefully neglected his Senate duties to engage in that quest (in 16 years in the House and Senate, he authored not a single major piece of legislation). Others consider him the rankest sort of opportunist, who will do anything to grab a headline...
...Senatorial contest in Massachusetts is just such an election. The incumbent, Republican Senator Leverett Saltonstall, is a plodder who has given the Eisenhower Administration strong support. The Democratic candidate, Foster Furcolo, has had an excellent voting record, but has spotted it by surrendering to the rankest form of political expediency...