Word: better
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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John Connally [Sept. 10] personifies power better than any other candidate of either party...
...start looking forward to it almost from the moment I get up. If I don't run, I don't feel exactly right." By early summer, Carter was averaging 40 to 50 miles a week, and with typical intensity and stubbornness, he kept trying to better his time. At first, he averaged 8½ min. per mile, but he now regularly finishes the distance in 7 min. Occasionally, he turns in a 6½-min. mile, an excellent time for a self-proclaimed "senior citizen" who will be 55 this week...
...White House seem to have a deep compulsion to do everything a little more, better, grander than any of the others who have gone before them. Perhaps it is a natural urge, since getting to be President of the United States is about a 6 billion-to-1 shot at any given moment in the human scene. Having established that triumph, they look for other records to break...
Long before Johnson went on to fulfill that prophecy, and do a bit better, he accumulated a number of scholastic and community achievements. So did Kennedy (Pulitzer Prize author) and Nixon (law school scholarship) and Ford (Eagle Scout). So did Jimmy Carter, who led his high school, was admitted to Admiral Rickover's nuclear fraternity, succeeded in business and local politics...
...system for testing private pilots stringent enough? While the report on the accident has not yet been released, federal investigators unofficially cited mistakes by Munson as the probable cause. Munson had let his $1.2 million jet settle below the proper glide path, failed to extend the wing flaps for better lift and control and then, in trying to correct his dangerously low approach, had applied engine power too slowly...