Word: rankness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...number of top officers, among them General Ngo Quang Truong, commander of IV Corps, and Major General Nguyen Vinh Nghi, whose 21st Division cleared the treacherous U Minh forest in the Mekong Delta in a tough but little-noted operation last year. Even so, most U.S. advisers below the rank of major speak of their Vietnamese counterparts with condescension if not outright contempt...
First in the Deep South during Reconstruction and later in the border states, blacks were the bulk of the Republican rank-and-file and used their numbers to secure positions of leadership within the party. All twenty of the black Congressmen and both of the black Senators elected during Reconstruction were Republicans...
...doubled for submarine crews. A specialist, like a sonar technician, earns about $10 per month, a chief warrant officer about $55, a lieutenant $65 and a captain $135, which is doubled if he commands a ship. There are enormous differences between the life-styles and privileges of the various ranks. Officers above the rank of commander, for instance, are provided with housing near bases for their families; enlisted sailors-mostly three-year conscripts who quit the service for jobs at home when their enforced tours are ended-get neither a housing nor a living allowance for their families...
Simon is said to be anxious nowadays about his place in rock history, concerned that he has not been ranked with the likes of Bob Dylan and the Beatles. He may not rank quite that high, but part of the joy of his music has always been its unpretentiousness, the fun that went into it. He sounds more like the real Simon when he says: "I love my own music. I can work on my music, or sit and play the guitar, all night, and I love it because it's me and I'm making...
...They were so dirty that even the paper on which they appeared seemed to take on a grubby look. Yet the faces of Bill Mauldin's Willie and Joe were as admired and familiar to Americans during World War II as Dwight David Eisenhower's. Irreverent toward rank and cynical about the war-"Just gimme th' aspirin," Willie tells a medic. "I already got a Purple Heart"-Willie and Joe were more than cartoon characters. They were the American...