Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...substance on the jungles of Viet Nam. His newest book may help to create a climate for domestic restrictions. Such action seems appropriate. Everything that is known about dioxin, associated with skin eruptions, liver damage, cancers, mental problems, miscarriages and birth defects, suggests that it may be even better at killing animals and people than at killing weeds...
...roles had been reversed in the first game--there was better hitting, but worse fielding. Luckily, though, the pitching was again invincible, as the unflappable Larry Brown moored Navy with eight strikeouts, while yielding but four hits and one earned...
...coach, however, took the turn-around more seriously. "The only other time the two boats have worked against each other, the varsity was clearly better. This time the J.V. were clearly better. I just don't know what to do right now, I'll have to think about it this coming week...
...little jammed, whenever acutely upset I begin to laugh hysterically; so I suppose I conformed very nicely to her sterotypical fancies about blacks. She talked on and on, every now and then mentioning blacks while casting a significant look in my direction. Her Dear Friend was no better, periodically contorting her facial muscles in expressions suggestive of profound empathy. I marveled at the speed with which, after speaking at such length in her flatulent way about the arrogated rights of the individual, she could forget her own preachings and attempt to make me into a stereotype...
About the Princeton defeat, the less said, the better...