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Word: inferior (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...these occasional exhausted or despairing lapses provide a rare touch of credibility. Nothing in Victor Victoria appears too taxing for Andrew's cohorts either. Unfortunately, Garner's lead appears less warm and less interesting that Preston's Today. Victoria, Toddy's equal, ends up attached to a man her inferior in spirit and spunk because of Hollywood's romantic conventions...

Author: By Clea Simon, | Title: No Surprises | 4/13/1982 | See Source »

...coming from a men who has just been talking about having to move to a Black neighborhood because "When you live around white people, anything can happen." Equally out of place is a story he tells of his trip to "The Motherland--Africa," where he noticed there was no "inferior" race, a realization which caused him to cry. It made him give up using the word "nigger," which he says is a "word we use to describe our own wretchedness...

Author: By Mark A. Silber, | Title: Still Funnier Than Thou | 3/24/1982 | See Source »

...partisan crowd ridiculed Fortinsky during parts of his testimony. Several laughed out loud when he said "because of their [snub-nosed handguns'] inferior stopping power, they are ineffective as self-protection...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Committee Debates Gun Control | 3/23/1982 | See Source »

...true for the Soviet Union. Despite vast quantities of men and materiel, the U.S.S.R. is believed by the author to be in a poor position for a prolonged stalemate. His reasons: a strained economy, naval bases that are awkwardly located, unreliable satellites, and equipment and maintenance that are generally inferior to those of the West. This is not especially good news, for if a Soviet blitzkrieg should fail, Dunnigan feels that Russian leaders might quickly resort to chemical and nuclear weapons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rethinking the Unthinkable How To Make War by James F. Dunnigan | 3/8/1982 | See Source »

Matched against a vastly inferior Wellesley team, the racquetwomen put on an exhibition that was over almost before it began as they rolled to a routine 7-0 demolition of their cross-town rivals. The victory ended the team's one-game losing streak--courtesy of their 5-4 loss to Princeton--and upped their season record to a near-impeccable...

Author: By Marco L. Quazzo, | Title: Racquetwomen Squash Weak Wellesley Squad, 7-0 | 2/17/1982 | See Source »

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