Word: ranking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...president of the interchurch Youth Council. "A lovely, attractive girl, and always dependable," said the dean of girls at A. B. Davis High School, where Christine was honor student, cheerleader and senior class marshal. "You could call her well-stacked and a fun girl, but I'd rank her as one of the three most intelligent girls in our class," said Jeffrey Morris, who played Sir Joseph to Christine's Cousin Hebe in the school's H.M.S. Pinafore...
...main air bases near Maracay, 50 miles west of the capital, news of the arrests electrified Major Luis Evencio Carrillo, paratroop battalion commander, and a dozen air force officers of equal or lesser rank. Mostly U.S.-trained and democratically minded, they had apparently planned to rebel much later. Instead, New Year's Eve turned into a night of feverish speedup. From their barracks the paratroopers and others smoothly took over the city of Maracay (pop. 80,000) and the air bases. Before 6:30 a.m., two Sabre jets whined off to Caracas. Over Radio Maracay, the rebels announced...
...many friends through the country," Shirl explained, "this way they can all be here." The best man called dapper, cutawayed Bernie "a worn-out wolf"; and Shirl, swathed to the neck in a white jersey Murray Hamburger original (retail price: about $275), giggled nervously. "I feel like the most rank amateur that ever got before a camera," she said. A veteran of the Sid Caesar shows. Shirl performed in fact like an old pro, even shed a tear for the close-up lens. Viewers met Shirl's niece, who had come via "Northwest Orient Airlines, famous for imperial service...
...with high Predicted Rank List estimates (Group I or II), gain highest honors more frequently in Natural Sciences and Humanities than in Social Sciences, the reports says...
...House (where 34-year Subscriber Eisenhower's copy* comes every Friday through the mail), from far-flung foreign bases to Washington's wire-service bureaus, which cull frequent stories from the Journal and label them "authoritative." Because the Journal has high-echelon readership (56% of its subscribers rank above Army captain) and high standards of accuracy, the Pentagon snaps smartly to attention when it barks. Examples...