Word: rankness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...obsessed. With Eugene O'Neill, it is the isolated torment of the soul's loneliness. With Arthur Miller, it is the nagging quest for justice. With Tennessee Williams, it is the poignant cry of the violated heart. And though Britain's Alan Ayckbourn does not rank with these playwrights, he, too, has his ambient obsession. Again and again (Absurd Person Singular, The Norman Conquests and now Absent Friends) he dwells on the crimping horizons and absurdist conventional fritter of suburban life...
Your vicious anti-Franco bias and rank hatred in your story of Spain's "return to democracy" (whatever that is) are what is expected...
...supervised asset management for a short period, long-term commitments to the union's 384,000 fund participant members may exceed assets by as much as $5 billion. To close the gap, says Shannon, employers must increase their contributions by 20%, to $37 a month, while the rank and filers will have to work 30 years instead of 20 to gain their maximum pensions...
...time or another, all these men were generals in the Israeli army or air force. In perhaps no other nation are retired military men so visible in civilian life. There are currently 40 retired officers in Israel who held the rank of major general or lieutenant general. Of these, eleven are in politics and 22 in high civil service posts; two have become academicians, while five hold executive jobs in private industry...
Some traditions instituted by Ben-Gurion remain. Israeli generals reach high rank early, and with plenty of experience: in addition to army training schools, they have seen ample combat at various levels through several wars. They also retain the tradition of retiring early, usually before they are 50. Thus most have a long civilian life ahead of them. Dayan, for instance, left active service nearly 20 years ago, but he is only...