Word: outrank
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...N.A.A.C.P. Seeking a federal court injunction, they charge that the golf course would be de facto segregated because few local Negroes could afford the $100-a-year membership, plus fees. The case will be heard this month, but thus far the vision of green fairways seems to outrank either the black man's cause or the yellow bird's fate...
Cliffies may soon outrank the Cambridge police as crime fighters. Beginning Oct. 9, Radeliffe girls will be studying Tae Kwon Do, the Korean art of self-defense...
...business existing. More than half of the 30 independent Black African nations are still ruled by the same men who took over in the first days of freedom. While this reflects a stability of sorts, only one African leader has been voted out of office; inevitably, coups still outrank ballots, and will for a long time to come...
...most widespread objection to these emissaries of the Pope is that they frequently enjoy far more influence in Rome than do local cardinal-archbishops who outrank them. In recent years, complaints have multiplied that Rome's diplomats meddle too much in the internal affairs of the church in the countries where they are stationed. Extremely liberal Catholic clergy in The Netherlands, for example, have protested that Giuseppe Beltrami, who was internuncio there until he was recently named a cardinal, "kept the wires to Rome hot with reports of heresy in Holland"-not always without justification...
...strictly military exploits. John Paul Jones and Farragut rise from the history books as authors of heroic slogans, but hardly as full-fledged heroes. Besides, there is a strong prejudice in favor of the gallant loser and the persistent defender of a lost cause. Lee and Stonewall Jackson outrank Ulysses S. Grant. World War I produced no military heroes unless it was Sergeant York, a man of peace reacting to pressure. World War II and after showed a growing sophistication in American taste in war heroes. The dashing George Patton was ranked well behind the judicious men of wide responsibility...