Word: inferior
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cosmonaut will feel even worse served when she tries to find a bra, an enameled teapot or a new coat. Soviet-made clothing is ill-fitting, poorly made, and fashioned from generally inferior fabric. There is a shortage of meat grinders because the planners cut back output too drastically after production one year slightly exceeded demand. Enamel kitchenware is almost unavailable. Reason: the output of enamelware plants is measured by weight, so the factories meet their quotas by manufacturing a few heavy bathtubs rather than many small kitchen items...
Harvard was clearly playing consolation hockey, but the Crimson can hardly be blamed for its frustrated effort. Fifteen hours before Harvard stepped on the ice to play Denver, it had stumbled off the ice in shock, eliminated by an inferior Minnesota team in overtime after holding the lead for all but the last seven seconds of regulation play...
There wasn't too much evidence to indicate the possibility of those two victories. For one thing, Harvard's record after the ECAC Christmas tournament amounted to one significant loss after another-twice to Cornell, once to B.U., and twice to inferior teams. Furthermore, the Beanpot loss to B.U. and the second loss to Cornell seemed to prove that both teams were simply better than Harvard; B.U. because it outplayed the Crimson, and Cornell because it outskated Harvard...
...dolls and the frilly dresses we were told to keep clean, we have learned-they have told us-that it's a man's world and we had better learn to keep in our places (in the home, in bed). And they kept on telling us we were inferior, we were dumb, we didn't matter-in school, where we learned about famous men and their civilizations and their science and their art. And on the radios, rock stars singing about fucking their totally dehumanized (except for maybe how they look) girlfriends; and the women singing mostly about loving their...
...soldiers of fortune, German-born Mercenary Rolf Steiner. A veteran of losing battles in Indochina, Algeria and Biafra, Steiner spent some 13 months trying to train the rebels to fight the ruling Arabs. "They fight very well against each other," he once said. "But against the Arabs they feel inferior...