Word: inferior
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they had produced nothing in close to two years. The double album released in Europe from that tour featured high-powered versions of favorites like "Glad" and "Freedom Rider." For American listeners, Traffic's case remained tragic. Only one of the two discs was released in the U.S.--the inferior one, with dragged-out versions of songs taken from Low Spark and Shootout...
...issue is that Americans and Canadians tend to rationalize losses to what they consider inferior peoples. Either the players are not in shape or the country's best players did not show up--or, as in Bobby Hull's case, were not allowed to play because of NHL-WHA politics. We collectively have to face up to the fact that if a foreign country emphasizes a sport, either by subsidizing the construction of facilities or by exalting its participants in the press and public rallies, we cannot expect to remain superior forever...
...time the crew's practicing facilities were considerably inferior to what they are now and in between much energy was devoted to fund raising rather than rowing. Now, with an expanded coaching staff and more acceptable workout conditions, the only weight an oarswoman has to pull...
...first volume in 1928. Yet, Solzhenitsyn points out, "the book reveals the kind of literary power attainable only after many attempts by an experienced and accomplished writer." He also joins many critics in observing that Sholokhov's other fiction (Seeds of Tomorrow, Harvest on the Don) is strikingly inferior to The Quiet Don, which was completed in 1940. It became the best-selling Soviet novel in the U.S.S.R. (6 million copies translated into 40 different Soviet languages), and Soviet textbooks extol it as the supreme literary accomplishment of Communism. The book continues to be widely read in Soviet schools...
...rather as a comeuppance for an old grudge. Colette Delavigne, aged 27, is a judge in the juvenile courts and the pretty offspring of a brilliant haute bourgeois family. Colette is married to Bernard, a rich young executive who sells yogurt but is by her standards a social inferior. When a spiteful villager abducts their eight-year-old daughter as part of an ongoing vendetta against Colette's family, the Delavigne marriage is further strained...