Word: second-class
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...spartan public image, has proved a welcome and competent exception to the rule. His unquestioned integrity, coupled with his demonstrated ability, loyalty and courage, mark him as one of the truly unsung heroes of our time. It is regrettable that such enormous talents are to be relegated to the second-class showcase of the World Bank presidency...
...British decision was praiseworthy, and even necessary, for a sport that too long has treated its best players - the pros - as second-class citizens, while allowing less talented "shama-teurs" to live lives of leisure on their expense accounts. The move was courageous, too. Only two of the other 83 member countries in the International Lawn Tennis Federation - Canada and New Zealand - have offered any real as surance of support...
...British people. To admit Britain now with all its economic ills and un-Eu-ropean ways of doing business would be to destroy the Common Market, he said. Europe and Britain are "incompatible." However, De Gaulle added generously, France would be glad to consider some form of second-class associate membership for Britain to "favor commercial exchanges...
...passports are checked. We proceed to customs. One line is for Greeks--second-class citizens: slow and thorough inspection. The other is reserved for foreigners. We breeze through with unchecked baggage. The regime is desperate to attract tourists...
...Tiger Makes Out. On the dark streets of Manhattan, a neurotic off-duty postman (Eli Wallach) goes on the prowl. Tired of being a second-class male, he decides to turn himself into a parcel of sexual energy. Mumbling to pretty girls as they pass, he ends every sentence with a proposition-and remains ignored. In manic desperation, he zeroes in on a likely target, claps a raincoat over her head, and spirits her away to his apartment...