Word: rankness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...After all, Galley was hardly one of the elite of the officer corps. He was one of those thousands of peripheral soldiers of ordinary background and average intelligence who slog their way through O.C.S., enjoy a career of tedious assignments in grubby outposts and never, never rise beyond the rank of colonel...
...Donaldson affair without a trial. Besides, the man behind the investigation is General William Westmoreland; the flinty Chief of Staff has announced that "the system is on trial." Brigadier General Samuel Koster, Americal Division commander at the time of My Lai, has already been reduced to his present rank on Westmoreland's recommendation. Many ranking officers are up in arms over Westmoreland's inquisition. Says a friend and brother officer of Donaldson: "He is the least likely man to have knowingly shot a civilian. They have picked the wrong man here, and those charges are preposterous." Another general...
...ardent supporter of Nixon in 1960, Hoffa could be useful to the President if he were released before the 1972 election. Despite his imprisonment, he is still worshiped by the rank-and-file of the Teamsters, which has become the nation's largest union with some 2,000,000 members. What Hoffa says still counts with the Teamsters. The decision about whether or not to release him rests, of course, with the Federal Parole Board, which has a Nixon-appointed majority. The board said that it would not review Hoffa's case until next spring...
...experts sneered over their mint juleps and dismissed him as a fluke. At the Preakness, the horse they called a "ragamuffin" had the same experts choking on their clam cakes as he sped home the winner. Then the wisecracks turned to wonderment. Could he do it? Could this rank unknown, this invader from Venezuela-Venezuela?-make off with the most coveted honor in U.S. horse racing, the Triple Crown? Last week a record crowd of 81,036 came to find out, as the big (16.1 hands) copper colt went to the post in the $125,000 Belmont Stakes, the final...
...railroad the EEC entry through Parliament before the summer recess, which normally comes in July. He could also wait until October, after the party conferences. But there are disadvantages in delay. By the fall, Labor may well have turned openly against entry, and opposition in the Tory rank-and-file may have burst through the surface...