Word: superior
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Anyone with a radio set-either transmitter or receiver-was considered a spy, calling in "Yankee" help against the cause. Sister Anne-Maria Merkens, mother superior of a mission hospital at Bondamba, 300 miles northwest of Stan, owned a tiny transistor radio. Simbas in leopardskins appeared in mid-September, accused the nuns of sending messages to the Americans, even though the radio was only capable of receiving signals. They returned a few weeks later, killed the mission's cows, stole its chickens and rice. On their next visit, they abducted schoolgirls aged 7 to 14, spent the night sniffing...
...Problem. The New Jersey court apparently does not go along with Harvard's Dean Griswold and others who favor use of the contempt power to shut up talkative policemen. Superior officers should deal with improper statements that "constitute conduct unbecoming a police officer," said the court. As for inquisitive newsmen, the court added that nothing in its order "proscribes the reporting of the evidence as it is introduced before the jury by the state and the defendant during the course of the trial...
Nevling pointed out that the Mem Drive trees might well be the result of crossbreeding done long ago. Whatever they are, the "very mature" trees are "superior plants" he said...
Another guerrilla major reported that during an inspection trip he had been repeatedly arrested by leaders of the rebels' own youth wing, the Jeunesse, who "would not respect my rank." One loutish Jeunesse captain even threatened to have his fraternal superior executed for "troublemaking," until the major paid him a 3,000-franc ($20) bribe...
...CRIMSON for Tuesday, Nov. 10, John Laval, writing under the heading Flying Saucers, states that a recently published report "proves, beyond all reasonable doubt, that UFO'S (Unidentified Flying Objects) are unknown superior machines under intelligent control, emanating from an extra-terrestrial source...