Word: superhumans
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...knew this was the end. Cream had announced their splitting up, and the concert had that primeval aura of the last rites. We had talked to them for over an hour at a pre-concert reception. It didn't matter. On the stage, in that blue light, they were superhuman...
...satisfied that Nixon will win with his approach, and this pleases me. Nixon is not a superhuman, but he does think in a logical manner. Then too, a complete turnover usually exposes some of the maggots in the body politic...
...that, Jean-Claude Killy has added a superb disdain for danger and an almost superhuman capacity for concentration. Nobody takes a slalom gate quite the way he does-hurtling round the pole with his body slung out sideways, almost parallel to the snow. Nobody else has quite mastered his avalement technique of accelerating on the downhill turns-rocking back on his haunches and thrusting his skis so far forward that he seems certain to fall. Few have the courage to ski, as he puts it, "toujours à mort." And few can match his mental approach to a race. "When...
From the Syrian heights, the Israeli achievement seems superhuman. The farmers in the Huleh Valley, and the soldiers who manned Israel's defenses are not the pale timed Jews Hitler marched uncomplaining to a ghastly death. And the inescapable question is clearly: if they are not the people of the European ghettos, then who are they and how have they changed...
Despite his miseries at the plate. Yaz played superhuman ball in the outfield, robbing the hard-hitting Cardinals of at least two more runs. After Brock, Curt Flood and Roger Maris had parlayed a single, a double and an infield out into a 1-0 advantage in the third, Yazthrzemski went to work in the next inning...