Word: exceed
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...years after Gideon, there has been virtually no progress in 2,900 counties handling 70% of U.S. criminal cases. Another committee is investigating sentencing procedures. At present, no courts in the U.S. save in Connecticut and Massachusetts have the power to review sentences, however harsh or inadequate, unless they exceed statutory maximums. A more equable system of criminal justice, most authorities agree, would also demand better training, higher pay and greater public support for the nation's 350,000 policemen...
ASSORTED PROSE, by John Updike. An early arrival on the summer-reading shelf, this collection of nostalgic and humorous essays and reportage (including the classic account of Ted Williams' last game at Boston's Fenway Park) gracefully serves to remind the reader that few writers exceed Updike in skill with words...
...pioneer British aircraft designer, who built his first plane in 1908 with $5,000 lent by his grandfather, formed his own company in 1920 and went on to design World War II's fighting Mosquito and later the Vampire, first jet fighter in the free world to exceed 500 m.p.h., from which he conceived the four-jet Comet airliner, in a brilliant but crash-plagued attempt to capture the passenger market from U.S. planemakers; of a heart attack; in Watford, England...
...modern buildings on stilts, or pilotis, as he calls them, now can put them to their most logical use. "The silhouette of Venice is sacred," declared Corbu as his model for the hospital was displayed in the city's Institute of Architecture. The roof height will nowhere exceed 50 ft., even where the hospital sits well clear of water on pilotis. Sandwiched between the sacred skyline and the sea is a series of enough multilevel pavilions, each caring for 50 patients, to make a 1,200-bed "machine for healing." The top floor is reserved for patients, sequestered...
...that grows hungrier with every feeding, of a heterosexual in an era of pan-sexuality; frustration with language too meager to ciutch at ideas his mind is shaping, with mind too meager to clutch at ideas he'd like to shape, with creative ambitions that far exceed what greatness he can hope to claim, with material that will not yield its secrets, like rocky soil intractable to a battered plough...