Word: excelling
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This year's group is the kind of team that should excel in the Heps. It has several stars, good support, and few glaring week spots. But chances are that March will once again find the varsity an also-ran in the big meet it has not won since the glory days...
...American, or anyone, who can demonstrate an outstanding ability in some recognized field will be welcomed into the academic and extra-curricular life of Cambridge. Thus, the committee seeks a young man who, besides displaying overall proficiency, stands out markedly in some single field. Those who excel in athletics are welcome...
...alive, says Bainbridge, is the cheapness of life. More people are killed in Texas traffic accidents than in any other state except California, which has about 40% higher population. Perhaps, Bainbridge suggests, it's all the result of the old pioneer spirit. "Texans behind the wheel tend to excel by far all other Americans in aggressiveness, perhaps in this respect outclassing even the Germans. Courtesy can be expected on the splendid Texas highway system only from the lily-livered...
Brigitte Bardot and Pablo Picasso excel in their arts, share alliterative names, dote on the South of France and enjoy worldwide fame-and that is not all they have in common. BB, when clothed, often wears a silver circle necklace with a pendant of Venetian crystal. PP, when he puts on a shirt, sports a pair of silver cuff links adorned with delicately hued beach pebbles. The jewelry is the work of a lithe Swedish girl named Torun Bulow-Hube, who lives with her husband in the tiny Riviera village of Biot and is known to a growing coterie...
...idolizing his father as a paragon of power and virtues. The process is severest in the sons of outstandingly successful men: their anxiety neuroses are as notorious as the traditional case of the preacher's son becoming a drunkard. A career girl is shredded by the need to excel father or mother or both, and for her the problem may be complicated by Oedipal feelings toward father...