Word: inferior
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wonder what prompted this saccharine outburst. After completing a paper, I needed a treat. (That's good psychology.) I attempted to recapture the sweet joys of youth and made a startling revelation. Vending machines, while making a profit for their owners, stock inferior candy--and even what they do have is stale. Candy bars cost a fortune. No longer can one be a gourmand on a nickel delight. Even the 15 cent and 20 cent bars have shrunk. My mouth isn't that much bigger, but the bars are consumable in one bite...
...accept the transcripts or insist on getting the original tapes, Majority Counsel John Doar said flatly, "The transcripts are not accurate." Doar hastened to explain that certain words might have been dropped by the White House transcribers because of inattention and that some "unintelligible" segments might be attributable to inferior listening equipment. But some committee members thought Doar was being unduly generous and that some tapes had in fact been tampered with...
...Black schools are not inferior simply because they are black," Bell said, citing "inherent, educational advantages in black schools, particularly for poor, ghetto blacks...
...been given to it by Special Prosecutor Jaworski. When comparing them with the White House documents, they found that the Administration's transcribers had dropped out certain words and identified as "unintelligible" some segments that the committee staff found intelligible. Doar blamed other differences on the White House's inferior playback equipment and inattention by the people who operated it. Jaworski's staff found similar discrepancies between tapes and transcripts...
...sharing the girl friend of an old Cambridge classmate, Giles and Marjorie become quite chummy. Just how far they go is kept calculatedly unclear by the author at the book's climax. In doing so, Bunting underscores the point that for Adams to be cuckolded by a social inferior is bad enough, but not to be sure may be even worse...