Word: superior
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...party has erased any doubts that Senator Kennedy should be re-elected by nominating as his opponent a genuine nonentity. Howard Whitmore has only several terms as mayor Newton and a conservative philosophy to qualify him for national office. It hardly seems possible, but in 1964, Ted is the superior candidate on grounds of experience...
...proceedings turned particularly lively with the appearance in Plymouth of querulous Quintin Hogg, formerly Lord Hailsham, one of the more erratic of Tory politicians. As Minister of Education and Science in the Conservative Cabinet, Hogg was routinely telling his audience about the superior virtues of the Tories when a heckler shouted: "What about Profumo...
Died. The Very Rev. Jean Baptiste Janssens, 74, Superior General of the 33,000-member Society of Jesus (Jesuits) since 1946; of complications following a stroke; in Rome. An austere Belgian, Janssens was best known for the General Congregation he called in 1957 to propose that his own absolute authority be diluted, but which came to nought after Pope Pius XII warned that obedience should not be replaced by "a 'democratic equality' in which subjects argue with their superiors...
...fourth plateau I noticed that my Classmate, who was behind me, was subdued, whether by the marvels of each succeeding plateau and the vision of so many Superior People or by the arduousness of our journey from the depths--I don't know, for she hardly spoke at all. Suddenly, as I neared the fifth plateau, she was no longer by my side, and I had only the Vision and Promise of Learning to draw...
...Hitler, Lieut. General Karl Wolff was the very model of the Aryan SS general. To Himmler, his immediate superior, he was affectionately known as "Wolfie." But to American intelligence officers at the top-level P.W. camp at Gmunden in 1945, the tall, blond, aristocratic Wolff was a fascinating and highly valuable German patriot-"the white sheep" of the dreaded...