Word: inferiorated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...delegates around the Luxembourg Palace council table exuded international friendliness. Cheerfully and without rancor they discussed a difficult problem: was it right to label a wine as a "Bordeaux," even if it had been diluted with inferior Algerian grapes? The cheerful worriers were delegates to an international wine convention which met in the back rooms of the Palace. When Ernie Bevin was told about their presence, he sighed wistfully: "I bet they got away to dinner at a respectable hour...
...from a kind of notion that ran in my head that nothing could have commenced at the size of infancy, and reached her present bulk in less than 35 or 40 years. . . . [But] no woman that I have seen, has a finer face . . . and in [mind] she was not inferior . . . to any with whom I had been acquainted. . . . I mustered my resolution and made the proposal to her direct; but shocking to relate, she answered No. . . . I was mortified . . . in a hundred different ways. . . . Others have been made fools of by the girls; but I most emphatically, in this instance...
Like most Norse runners, Strand prefers practicing on soft ground or a pine-needled trail rather than on a cinder track. Although he brought three pairs of Swedish shoes with him because he thinks U.S. track shoes are inferior, Strand ran two miles twice a day in his bare feet. Last week he made his U.S. debut...
...Germans, says Knauth, have a proverb about logic: "If you say A, you must say B." Their concentration camps were "A ... the proposition that all men are not created equal. The B was that therefore some men are superior to others. The C was that the inferior men must be subjugated. The D was Buchenwald, and all its counterparts in Germany...
...British films were eligible for the Academy Award, Laurence Olivier's production of "Henry V" would win every Oscar in sight. For that reason it is difficult to talk about it. The publicity troglodytes of Hollywood have long since exhausted the mine of superlatives in describing far inferior efforts. No press agent adjectives can do this picture justice...