Word: rankness
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...strange a choice for a biography as the thuggish, illiterate, pre-Ali heavyweight champion might be, that's not nearly so strange as Tosches' technique: a gumbo of archival minutiae, back-alley hearsay, self-serving memory and rank speculation, all underscored with periodic outbursts of prose so embarrassingly purple it could shame a grape. Most provocative theory: that Liston's two fights with the young Cassius Clay/Muhammad Ali were fixed by the Nation of Islam. Most convincing characterization: the drowning-in-slime, Mob-controlled world of big-time boxing circa 1960. Most vexing question: why anyone would commit a sentence...
Vendler and Hoffman, who have both attained the high rank of University professor, were able to hire assistants because of their endowed professorships, according to Vendler and Gevelyn R. McCaskill, manager of finance and information systems at the Center for European Studies...
Despite her rank, Vendler is still only able to afford a half-time assistant...
...although my own "off-off-Broadway" production of a crucial, big game mistake won't rank with the devastation of the Webbers or Buckners of the world, I can attest to the bitter and acrid taste of that oft-bandied expression "agony of defeat...
Just two years ago the GOP was predicting that the Lewinsky mess would be the Democrats' Watergate, that it would expose endemic sleaze among the Democratic rank and file and, come election time, would translate into a rousing round of GOP victories. This has largely backfired. GOP approval ratings plummeted following Clinton's impeachment trial, as the public viewed the party as being up to its old "dirty tricks." The longer the Ray investigation drags on, the nastier the GOP looks. That's bad news for any Republican campaigning on a platform of "compassionate conservatism...