Word: smarter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...buttressed by three linebackers. The conversion of three linemen into secondary defenders provided extra coverage of pass receivers, but it also left four men to do the job of seven in rushing the passer and shutting off the run. Suddenly, defensive linemen had to be bigger, faster and infinitely smarter. Suddenly, defense had to be a science...
...Orin Atkins, 43, and other Ashland executives, follows what is more or less jocularly called the "Ashland Workweek." It be gins around 8 a.m., lasts ordinarily until midnight, runs seven days a week with only occasional breaks and brief vacations. "I don't think we're any smarter than the competition," explains Blazer, "but I think we outwork them." As a result, in the past five years Ashland has almost tripled sales to $805 million. This week Ashland will regroup 13 small chemical companies acquired since 1963 into a subsidiary with $300 million in sales to be known...
...alpha intelligence tests have frequently been cited as evidence of the Negro's mental inferiority, since the Negro soldier invariably ranked below the white soldier on a state-by-state basis. But the same test results can be used in another way to demonstrate that Negroes are smarter than whites. On the alpha tests, for instance, Negro soldiers from the Northern state of Ohio outscored whites from eleven Southern states. Beyond this, it could be inferred from the tests that Northern whites are superior to Southern whites, because they almost always did better...
...political scientist. Indeed, Volunteers often find it fashionable to describe their environment in the kind of sweeping, value-laden generalizations which they learned to beware of in college history of sociology class. "Peruvian Indians are simple and friendly people," they will joke, or "The Ghanaians are so much smarter than the Liberians." Like all cultural descriptions the statements will be half true, but in voicing them the American abroad is not simply being flippant; he is searching for a frame of reference that will make sense of his surroundings, his neighbors and his daily frustrations...
After a TV appearance, Nevada's Democratic Governor Grant Sawyer, 47, got a letter from a nine-year-old constituent: "I saw you on TV last night for the first time. My Dad says not to worry. You are a lot smarter than you look." Last week a ten-year-old critic penned the following: "I'm writing to tell you that I'm going to be Governor some day. My father says I should finish grade school first, because I need an eighth-grade education to be as smart as you." Shrugged Sawyer: "A left-handed...