Word: superhumans
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...physician, using his long, specialized experience in reading ECGs, can interpret the squiggled paper from the nurse's Cardioview if an abnormality is suspected. The computer, with its electronic brain, interprets the impulse scale in a fraction of a second, and it does this superhuman job accurately enough to show instantly whether there is any ECG abnormality...
...even if all the Republican leaders who oppose Goldwater were to gather around Scranton, would they be able to stop Barry's bandwagon? There is deep doubt that they could. "It would take a superhuman effort," says Maine's Fred Scribner, general counsel to the Republican National Committee. Says General Lucius Clay, an authentic Republican kingmaker: "It's late, very late...
Although no Scoffer would be caught dead studying for exams earlier than exam week (at which time he may exert veritably superhuman efforts), chances are the spectre of examinations is never completely absent from his thoughts. Engaged in casual poker marathons, putting on faces of nonchalance to the world, he may perhaps shriek in his night-mares "The system is evil, unfair, stupid...
...night, or is contained to any degree by the opposition, the Tigers is dead. When Princeton played Yale earlier this season they won 74-60, but the Elis were in a slump then. Friday should be the Bulldogs' night, and Princeton--unless Bradley turns in a superhuman performance--will wind up in third place...
...some students he himself looked like one of the grand Romantic figures he spoke of in the lectures, an Ahab at times, and even an Ishmael. Those brawling sentences, the brooding manner, the great, obscene chuckles whose delight it was impossible not to share, all were touched with something superhuman, something demonic. He lived intensely, self-destructively even. Those who loved him wanted him to take things easier, to save himself, to bank the fires; but with sorrow and awe we see that giants were not meant to live that...