Word: rankness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pair disregarded the call, which came from behind them. When the sergeant major caught up, a scuffle took place. Rollins decked the noncom. Charged with assaulting a superior and failing to obey an order, Rollins faced a sentence of six months at hard labor plus a reduction in rank...
...bittersweet ending to a weekend. Football may rank as the more publicized sporting event, but Penn surely came out on top of the weekend exchange of a football loss for a soccer victory. For while Penn's football team appears headed toward less than mediocrity, the Quakers' soccer squad must now rate as one of the top teams in the nation, and the front-runner in the Ivy League race...
Initiates to Harvard basketball may be surprised at the Crimson's rank in some pre-season top 20 polls, but it is a good omen for the hard-core followers who knew it would happen sooner or later. "The squad, which boasts four former high school All-Americans (double last year's number), has its work cut out for it though, if it expects to live up to its 11th-place rating in Basketball Magazine...
...Other social teachings include the adoption of a universal auxiliary language, the solution to economic problems through a fundamental change in individual attitudes regarding material life, the abolition of the extremes of wealth and poverty, the exaltation of work (performed in the spirit of service to humanity) to the rank of worship, and the establishment of a world tribunal to settle disputes between nations...
...Times, he returns to his favorite human geometry, the triangle (in this case, two women and a man), and examines the tricks that life plays on memory and memory plays on itself. The trio will be acted by Robert Shaw, Mary Ure and Rosemary Harris. From the front rank of American playwrights, only Arthur Miller is currently scheduled for production, with a new work titled The Creation of the World and Other Business. Miller calls it a "catastrophic comedy." He also has a revival coming up when the Repertory Theater of Lincoln Center does The Crucible, the parable...