Word: ranking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...student-leader to note that no matter how hard he may be working to represent his fellows, no one really considers him his representative. The feeling that no one appreciates what he is doing (and this applies as well to the club officer's regard of his rank-and-file) leads to a martyred bitterness toward those whom he is supposed to represent. The realization that his fellows are asking "Who cares?" eventually leads him to mutter, "The hell with them," and the chasm between the academic reality and the dream of the leader increases considerably...
...basic issue: while the cost of living has risen 40% in three years, wages have gone up only about half that much. The rank and file is tired of the cozy old system whereby union leaders cooperate with the government and in turn get cushy government jobs. Sample: Labor Confederation Chief Fidel Velázquez is also a Senator. Even if López Mateos' stern measures win this round, the show of worker loyalty behind Vallejo was a signal of more labor turmoil ahead...
...Rojas Pinilla for abusing power and enriching himself in office (TIME, March 30), the Colombian Senate last week abolished all Rojas' political rights, all his titles and honors. As he signed a document to acknowledge the sentence. Rojas automatically lost his monthly pension as a former President, his rank as lieutenant general, and his proud chest of trinkets, including the Order of Boyacá, the Military Cross, the Order of Admiral Padilla, the Police Star (in the degree of Grand Extraordinary Civic Star), the Cross of Aeronautical Merit, the Order of Sanitary Merit and the Order of June...
...rare books between the coasts. It isn't as good as the Houghton Library at Harvard, and it's not as good as the Yale collection. We come right after Yale." Says Yale's Rare Book Curator Herman W. Liebert of Randall's library: "First rank-one of the outstanding in the nation...
...true role of airpower in modern war. When war with Japan came, the Flying Tigers made up the only Allied air force in being in a critical battleground. Yet even after he had been put in command of a U.S. air force of his own and had won the rank of general, he was still treated as a crackpot, remained low man on the totem pole when it came to supplies. He was virtually pushed into retirement days before war ended and did not even get the courtesy of space on the battleship Missouri when the Japanese surrendered...