Word: rankness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meeting with Japan's Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka in Tokyo. Delighted by what he called the decision "to accelerate the normalization of relations" between the U.S. and China, Kissinger said the U.S. representative to Peking will be named within a month. Although he will not have the rank of ambassador, Kissinger indicated that the importance Washington places on the post will be revealed by the type of man chosen. Perhaps the most likely prospect is Alfred Le S. Jenkins, the State Department's leading China expert, and a companion of Kissinger's on his visits to Peking...
Speaking to 100 students at Cabot Hall, Miller said that the union under former president W.A. "Tony" Boyle had been "completely unresponsive" to the rank and file membership. Miller, running at the head of a reform party, Miners for Democracy, defeated Boyle last December in an election ordered by the Labor Department...
Miller said he will soon make all of the union's positions elective in order to make the union leadership more responsive to the rank and file...
...able to carry a larger number of assistant professors. With 16 such appointments and an average stay of four years, about four people begin and four end their terms each year. With, say, five non-tenured associate professors whose terms are three years, at most two appointments to that rank open each year. Allowing for an occasional appointment from the outside, one or two out of four assistant professors can thus be promoted. It follows that the size of the junior staff renders the annual loss of people inevitable. While those involved are aware of the odds, the department nevertheless...
Mailer was outraged by the scene in which a character bearing his name, rank and serial number was shot by a punk recruit. Furthermore, the bullet was fired into the very end of his digestive tract from a range that politely can only be called pointblank. At a meeting of lawyers and publishers, Mailer offered to reduce Lelchuk to "a hank of hair and some fillings." That literary phrase turned out to be a pretty good description of the novel itself...