Word: inferiors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stifling bourgeois respectability, Mile, de Beauvoir fled to the Sorbonne, where only one of her classmates stood higher in the examinations, and she determined to cast her lot with him. "It was the first time in my life," she said of Jean-Paul Sartre, "that I had felt intellectually inferior to anyone else...
...march [on Rome, when he took power from Victor Emmanuel III in 1922], considered as an art work, was particularly brilliant. And it would be unfair not to recognize Mussolini's great qualities of political imagination. Other dictators, from Hitler and Nasser to Sukarno and Fidel Castro, are inferior imitators...
...help of sorts from Red China late last week when four silvery MIG-17s tangled briefly with U.S. Navy Phantom jets, then fled toward the Chinese island of Hainan, 150 miles east of North Viet Nam. In terms of aerodynamics performance, the slow (730 m.p.h.) MIGs were clearly inferior to the 1,600-m.p.h. Phantoms with their heat-seeking Sidewinder rockets. One of the planes was sent flaming into the clouds while the others scuttled for home. At week's end both Peking and the Pentagon were denying it was theirs. Peking quickly shrilled that...
...both father and husband can be thoroughly beaten up, harassed, humiliated and degraded daily. Lulled by these halfway aggressions-that is to say, halfway to murder-the censorship demands only that in the final sequence Hans & Fritz must submit to flagellation for their 'naughtiness,' Blondie to the inferior position of being, after all, merely a wife...
...Asked, "How do amphibians protect themselves?", a computer at California's System Development Corp. typed out its reply: "Roman soldiers protected themselves by locking shields." The computer had, of course, mindlessly confused key words. Though its memory units give it an impressive quantitative advantage, the computer is qualitatively inferior to any schoolboy...