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Word: inferiors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Former Defense Secretary James Schlesinger hears an echo from the 18th century, when armies used to maneuver around each other. The one emerging in an inferior position often surrendered quickly so that it could live to fight again. "We march television cameras instead of troops," he says. Warfare that used to seek land, wealth or subjugation now is aimed at the mood in Washington or Qum or Moscow or Riyadh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Shadow Dancing with the World | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

Awarded a bye for found one, sophomore, Paul Wideiman powered his way past Cadet Thomas of the Coast Guard Academy, 11-0. The versatile Widerman used a variety of leg rides to frustrate his inferior opponent...

Author: By Michelle D. Healy, | Title: Four Grapplers Advance; Freshmen Lead Parade | 12/1/1979 | See Source »

...part of Hitler's drive to exterminate "inferior races," the Nazis in 1938 established a Central Office for Combatting the Gypsy Menace, which arbitrarily classified thousands of gypsies as common criminals and sent them to concentration camps. Later, gypsies became targets of the Nazi crusade for racial purity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: The Nazis' Forgotten Victims | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

...something happened. First a loss to Dartmouth. The a narrow victory over inferior Brown. Then another loss, this time to Princeton. Than UConn. Then Yale. All well-played games; all demoralizing losses...

Author: By Bruce Schoefeld, | Title: Stickwomen Lose, Finish Season 6-7 | 11/10/1979 | See Source »

...other Third World groups) on this campus. Although we all realize that prejudice is strong beyond our "ivy walls," our efforts have been to change the attitudes on campus rather than those of society. We feel the need to disprove those individuals at Harvard who feel we are inferior in intellect. However, I think that this important campus-wide struggle tends to cloud the real obstacles to achieving equal status. To the racist the supposed intellectual inferiority sometimes attributed to blacks is justification for discrimination. It came as a shocking reintroduction to society that despite the number of achievements...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Question of Credibility | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

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