Word: greater
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weapons system): the post-Minuteman series of land-based offensive weapons, which would have greater range, accuracy and payload...
Desire to Play. Great as it was, Mantle's achievement still causes some baseball men to ponder how much greater it might have been. "With good legs," says former Yankee Catcher Elston Howard, "he would have hit 70 home runs in a season." Adds Casey Stengel: "In the years to come, when they read about him in the record books, nobody will ever believe he was a cripple...
Tuscan, and Ruthless. Because he insists that curial officials with greater seniority and prestige channel business through him, Benelli has already earned the nickname "the Berlin Wall." He has also, inevitably, bruised many clerical feelings. "Benelli is a Tuscan," said one Vatican critic. "He has inherited traditional Tuscan pigheadedness. He is ruthless." Not everyone is intimidated. Not knowing that the Pope had asked Archbishop Michael Gonzi of Malta, then 82, to stay on in office, Benelli sent word asking the prelate to vacate his see within two weeks. Gonzi stormed to Rome. "You've been a bishop two years...
...force." The phrase is recurrent and a key to understanding the qualities that distinguish a true captain of business and industry. Don Vito is the sort of man who would undoubtedly grump at such academic non sequiturs as "political science," since the years have taught him there is no greater natural advantage in life than having an enemy overestimate one's faults...
...have appreciated the opportunity for free expression and personal contribution that this course has allowed us. Soc Rel 149 has called forth a greater commitment and a more positive intellectual effort from us both in terms of conscientious reading we have done and of discussion in section, than most other coursse we have taken at Harvard. The absence of an assigned authority and the presence of undergraduate section leaders has given us a sense of collective responsibility for the direction of the course, the reading and the discussion; it has given us a sense of individual responsibility...