Word: inferiorated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Biggest Show. It was their biggest show up to that time. The outfit (said Joe) was "scared-but not afraid." By Admiral Halsey's order they were to help beat down a Jap task force, keep it from moving south and smashing inferior U.S. naval forces in the Solomons. There could be no failures by Group Twelve...
Negro draftees came to the Army with inferior training, fewer skills than whites, a fact decisively established by classification tests. The Army has recently tried to improve chances for Negro officer promotions, while it continued segregation for "military expediency." But the Army officially accepted "no doctrine of racial superiority or inferiority." Said an Army directive to officers": "All people seem to be endowed . . . with whatever it takes to fight a good war, if they want to and have learned how." The Army admitted that it must depend in the end on individual commanding officers. On this point Dean Hastie said...
Against the massive armada commanded by the U.S.'s gimlet-eyed Admiral Raymond A. Spruance, little Shimada had thrown an inferior task force. He had planned the action so cautiously that his force did not come within hundreds of miles of Spruance's guns. But it did poke its nose within range of Spruance's naval aircraft. That was enough...
...loss of the four cruisers . . . and the subsequent loss of two aircraft carriers left us inferior in strength for several months. The Japanese did not take advantage of this opportunity to engage in a fleet battle with the balance of power on their side, probably because they did not know-and we did not let them know-how severe our losses were...
Defense Attorney Broderick asked the medical examiner: "Did you remove the calvarium [Patricia Lonergan's] by sawing from the superior orbital regions to the inferior occipital regions...