Word: rankness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though some experts on the Mafia question whether a mobster of Vario's relatively low rank could run as important and widespread an operation as Gold claims, there is hope that the district attorney will be able to make at least some of his charges stick. Predicting "additional sensational developments" in the months to come, Gold says: "I think we could see a couple hundred of these fellows going to jail. That would be unparalleled...
DeMars shares seventh spot in total offense with Harvard teammate Eric Crone With 239 yards each they rank behind Cornells Mark Allen (441 yds.) and Brown's Pete Beatrice...
...keep up the spirits of the P.O.W.s, Americans are donning bracelets-some 4,000,000 at last count. Each is a metal band engraved with the name and rank of a serviceman and the date he was taken prisoner or listed as missing in action. The wearer agrees to keep the bracelet on until all 1,783 imprisoned and missing Americans are accounted for and their camps have been inspected by the Red Cross...
Former Navy Lieut. Commander Nixon pledged last July "to restore the United States to the rank of a first-class maritime power." The key to that promise was the Administration-sponsored Merchant Marine Act of 1970, which commits the Government to construction of 300 new commercial vessels, including the nation's first 250,000-ton supertankers-to be constructed by Bethlehem Steel and Seatrain Shipbuilding-and other classes of ships that previously were ineligible for subsidies. Builders are paid the difference between construction costs in the U.S. and abroad, which means that companies collect between a quarter...
...these once invulnerable bastions of liberal Protestantism reveal weaknesses, obscure outposts of evangelical conservatism are burgeoning. The five interdenominational schools that now rank ahead of Union in enrollment are all in this category. They are Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (Deerfield, Ill.), Gordon-Conwell Theological (Hamilton, Mass.), Asbury Theological (Wilmore, Ky.), Dallas Theological Seminary, and Fuller Theological (Pasadena, Calif...