Word: rankest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...horse, the public knows him as a jockey. But around the track, he is called a boy. It is an odd inversion of status for these masterful men, a class cognomen left over from the days when jockeys were servants of the sporting aristocracy. Age does not matter. The rankest apprentice is a boy; Willie Shoemaker?at age 46, the winner of more horse races than any man in the sport's history?...
...engraver. A new generation of duplicating machines, capable of copying in living color, threatens to open the field to anyone able to push a button. Technology, laments Richard Thornburgh, Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Justice Department's Criminal Division, "has brought counterfeiting ability down to the rankest amateur...
...brand of law and order. Those attacks caused the most serious damage Agnew did to the country, for the vice presidency is fortunately a position almost totally lacking in power. Those attacks, which were discredited by their illogic when they were first made, were shown yesterday to be the rankest hypocrisy as well...
...TIME report on the Watergate affair draws upon the rankest form of unsubstantiated hearsay to attempt to connect Mr. Mitchell and me to the incident. That connection is totally false. No TIME reporter attempted to contact me or Mr. Mitchell. Responsible journalists invariably try to verify the accuracy of an allegation-certainly one this serious-before publication. Had I had the opportunity, I would have most emphatically denied the implication of the story. Mr. Mitchell has also emphatically denied its allegations...