Word: rankness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will pay more attention to the winds of American politics than the needs of facing up to the Russians. NATO officials got a good look at Rumsfeld while he was the U.S. Ambassador to the alliance, and while they became used to his crisp style, they rank him far behind Schlesinger, who they feel is a brilliant strategist. One NATO official said that his colleagues welcomed having "a tough-minded guy like Schlesinger around who acts as an alternative opinion to Kissinger...
...present situation in Spain and in the exiled leftist leadership based in Paris is odd: action on the left is oriented towards political parties, policy statements and programs to form a common front against the Francoist state after Franco. But rank-and-file Spanish laboring men, historically the most radical in the West, have not yet emerged as factors. Thirty-six years of repression and material prosperity have perhaps stemmed the revolutionary tide. Only when Franco dies and Juan Carlos attempts to enact reforms over visceral right-wing opposition will the working class have a chance to act for itself...
...another four -including a staff sergeant accused of taking $275-are awaiting their day in court. But twelve have been reprimanded or similarly punished, and Staff Sergeant Marshall Wilhelm has been convicted of receiving about $60 in shakedown money, fined $320 and brought down by one grade in rank...
...keep themselves busy, the prisoners studied their Bibles, prayed and kept diaries; Mrs. Phillips baffled her guards by chasing butterflies. Everyone was interrogated 15 or 20 times. The Communists always asked the same questions: Who were they? What was their profession? Their rank? Had the U.S. financed their work in Southeast Asia? Until the very end, the North Vietnamese seemed determined to prove that the missionaries were in the pay of the Central Intelligence Agency. At times the prisoners managed to turn the tables on their interrogators. Mrs. Betty Mitchell, a Christian Missionary Alliance member who had worked...
People in Cambridge, a first-year Harvard law student who graduated from Princton told The Crimson, thought that Princton "places its chief emphasis upon uniformity of type and manner of dress, that she places a low rank upon things of the mind, that her outlook is immature and provincial, that membership in the Big Three is Princeton's chief claim to glory...