Word: rankness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that binds urban Americans is that most of them have had their homes broken into-or know someone who has. Burglaries rank first among all U.S. crimes, and fewer than a third of them are ever solved. Fed up with being victimized, apprehensive homeowners and apartment dwellers are replacing the welcome mat with an arresting array of security devices and services. Unwanted visitors now run the risk of being temporarily blinded by intense lights, deafened by screaming alarms, stung by electric fences or sprayed with tear gas. For the fledgling industry that supplies this security, the wages of fear...
Despite the Four Feathers mood that clings to it, Sir Basil Liddell Hart's last work is magisterial. On active duty in World War I, he rose only to the rank of captain in the British army before being gassed in 1916; yet, as his country's foremost military historian, he became a matchless armchair general and indeed, as pioneer advocate of fast-moving armored columns, a teacher of generals. Liddell Hart worked on this history for a quarter-century; he died last year while correcting proofs. Quite literally, it is his epitaph, and an appropriate...
Those charging war crimes-an impressively wide range of individuals-have a solid case, with facts, legal documents, and points logically argued. Can the sages from Littauer offer anything in Huntington's defense other than rank-pulling, some unctuous murmurings about "slander" and "intimidation," and their 29 famous names?TF, Romance Languages
...very disappointed if at times we can't rank in the top ten in the nation." he told reporters at the Harvard Club of Boston. Gambril, who has become one of the world's most famous coaches, was in town for 24 hours to talk to Harvard swimmers and athletic officials and to the press...
Though the goals men set for themselves need not be of Olympic proportions, Ali discriminates them from the desire "to secure some rank, position or pleasure they covet at the moment... Some of you fells are probably unhappy because there's some woman that you want that don't want you-(laughter and applause)-same with you ladies. How many of you saw a girl that made you say, 'boy, ain't she beautiful. If I could only make her mine, if I could win her love, that's all I need...' And as soon...