Word: inferiors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...advice to civilians: the hard back of your fist to any returning G.I. or officer who attempts wiping his feet on you as he has been accustomed to wipe his feet on Europeans (all of them) whom he considers "inferior...
...stomach. Florid press notices about his team-and they are a steady diet again this year-give it the growls. No advocate of die-for-the-old-school pep talks, Blaik has only one antidote for incipient overconfidence: he preaches cold facts, chalks out in black & white how an inferior team can whip a mightier one that makes a few mistakes...
...musical circles, the Boston Symphony owes its great reputation to precision playing and the persistent performance of new music. Koussevitzky's Beethoven has started numerous arguments; his Mozart is generally considered inferior to that of most reputable conductors. Russian music is his forte, and his Brahms is second only to Toscanini...
...officer-enlisted man complex was still terrific. I still felt inferior in the presence of brass, afraid to open my mouth, afraid to talk to them on an equal basis...
...Army and have found them in every case to be men with whom I have been proud to be associated. I have not found them any more devoted to their work or efficient in the discharge of their duties than Protestant chaplains are. There are superior Catholic chaplains and inferior ones. There are superior Protestant chaplains and inferior ones. And there are all grades in between-just as out of a hundred good generals there are bound to be one or two like General Vaughan...