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...woof ticket, the pronunciation is correct, but rather than being a "wolf ticket (meaning a challenge to fight), it is a "woof ticket (meaning a bluff). One often hears the term woofin' to mean that someone is in a sense barking, not yet committed to bite. Thus an inferior athletic team "sells woof tickets," trying to psych out its opponents. The superior team, confident of its ability, "buys all woof tickets...
...blacks, most of whom attended segregated schools in Florida as recently as 1971. At first, 77% of blacks failed the literacy test, compared with 24% of whites; after remedial instruction and two more tries, 20% of blacks and 2% of whites still had not passed. "The vestiges of the inferior elementary education [blacks] received still are present and affect their performance," said Carr...
...making an inferior quality radial tire which will subject us to belt-edge separation at high mileage...
...Woody Allen continues to nourish and expand the cinematic aspects of his work, thus proving that the comedy genre is in no way inferior to other acknowledged "artistic" and "intellectual" genres of the sound cinema, he will become not only the foremost American director, but will as well join that select circle of exceptional film actors/auteurs...
...century essay, "The Most Prevalent Form of Degradation in Erotic Life," retains the power to shock to this day. The father of psychoanalysis argued gloomily that most men are driven to debase their sex partners. Perhaps worse, he said, they are often attracted to women they consider inferior...