Word: rankness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...preferential voting, students rank their choice of candidates, and votes for candidates at the top of the list receive more weight than votes for candidates at the bottom, Stokes said...
Just as the community fought school desegregation, the rank and file of the police force resented, but were powerless to stop, the integration of blacks into their department...
...Callaghan, Britain's union-oriented labor laws do not empower the Prime Minister to order a cooling-off period when a crippling strike looms. The government also lacks the sophisticated mediation and arbitration machinery that has long been a part of U.S. labor laws. Beyond that, top-ranking union leaders now appear to have relatively little control over an ever more aggressive rank and file. Many public workers declined to return to work even after the official one-day demonstration of strength had ended...
...than a consummate mastery of the English tongue. They search out what Hamlet called "the motive and the cue for passion" and release characters like comets blazing across four centuries without extinction. In the universality of its human concerns and its storytelling entrancement, any of Shakespeare's front-rank plays redeems the flaws of the players...
Nine times a year Mitch raises a deafeningly militant clatter, pumping from his venerable machine 1,800 copies of the latest issue of the Underground Grammarian, which must rank as the most inflammatory broadsheet to come out of Philadelphia since Tom Paine published Common Sense...