Word: superior
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...promising product called Teflon, a slippery white plastic that feels something like a wet bar of soap.* Discovered in 1938 almost accidentally by Du Pont scientists who were working on fluorocarbon refrigerants, Teflon has other valuable properties: it will burn only when directly exposed to flame, is a superior electrical insulator and resists tears and impact...
...appeared eager to impress on his guests that he was not just a saber rattler. To establish his superior knowledge of French letters, the ex-librarian told his stunned interlocutors that he had read "Diderot and all your Encyclopedists. I've even read that 18th century author who wrote that remarkable book, The Mechanical Man." None of Mao's guests knew what book he was talking about, and they were too polite to ask.* "Above all," Mao said, "I'm an admirer of Napoleon. There isn't one of his works I don't know...
...There were about 30 of them," recalls Brother Maurice Désfossés, 47, the mission superior. "They had wild, glassy eyes and were naked to the waist. They had been smoking hemp." After asking for money, the rebels ordered the missionaries to their knees. "They let go with arrows and guns," said Canadian Sacred Heart Brother Jean-Guy Bruneau, 29. "Marechal [one of the lay teachers] fell on me, dead. I took a shot through the wrist that almost tore off my finger." Brother Maurice tried to run, but was hit in the leg with an arrow...
...Adams House proposal was prompted by a remark by R.T. Martin, Manager of the Adams House Dining Hall. In response to a student inquiry, Martin said that he could provide food of superior quality if he did not have to serve second helpings...
...legal factors cloud the fluoridation picture. One is a suit, now pending Middlesex Superior Court, that would force the anti-flouridation forces to disclose the source of the funds they used in heavy Cambridge campaigning...