Word: rankness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Housing Office used field of concentration, rank group, high school background and Master's choice as criteria to determine the assignments. Masters of the overapplied Houses could choose only 25 per cent of the incoming sophomores...
Despite his limited service with the Celtics the last two seasons, Sanders ended his career with a 10.1 points-per-game average and ranks in the top 25 in both playoff scoring and rebounding. His 758 playoff rebounds rank him 15th in league history. Sanders scored 1132 points in the playoffs...
Haig is reputed to have no enemies, though he is envied by the 230 officers he leaped over in going from two-star to four-star rank. Appointed the Army's Vice Chief of Staff only last January, Haig will not have to leave the service to take his temporary White House assignment. He will have little time for his wife, a general's daughter, and their three children. And he won't be spending much time with the troops, either...
...Haldeman and John Ehrlichman decided on John J. Wilson, 71, a well-established, first-rank Washington trial lawyer who won a libel suit five years ago for Barry Goldwater against Publisher Ralph Ginzburg. An avowedly conservative Republican, Wilson may well share any concern Haldeman and Ehrlichman have about protecting the presidency from unnecessary involvement...
...last of these, the paint has grown thin and pale; the face is resigned and tilted slightly to the side. The artist's image appears to be weakening, fading perhaps into the obscure position of one torn between styles and times, and caught, for all his talent, at a rank just below the greatest...