Word: superior
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Morrison." To a New Orleans rally he declared: "The only things that increased while Morrison was mayor were your crime rate and your Negro population." He kept up the attack through two statewide TV debates, which, he said, also "demonstrated that while we were not necessarily Morrison's superior in intelligence and knowledge of governmental affairs, we at least approached his equal, and that we were not the uneducated buffoon that some of the papers had suggested...
...power-plant proposals submitted by General Electric, United Aircraft and Curtiss-Wright-will be evaluated by a team of 210 Government aeronautical experts, will also be studied by the nation's airlines. If the FAA decides that the designs of one planemaker and one enginemaker are markedly superior to all others, the final contracts will be awarded in May. Otherwise the two leaders in each category will be placed in a one-year design competition to decide the winners. Even if contracts are awarded in May, the U.S. can hardly hope to get its SST into commercial service before...
...Divide and conquer was the rule. The women stormed the stairs to the Marimekko dresses. The patient wicker stool-sitter triumphantly claimed a $969 sofa, reduced to $700. He had a brief scuffle with a parvenu female customer who arrived at 9, but she quickly yielded before such obviously superior expertise...
...trimmed by about $1 billion next year-to around $51 billion. The savings would come mainly from a cost-reduction program instituted by President Kennedy and from a letup in heavy expenditures for the now well-stocked nuclear arsenal (see box). McNamara declared that U.S. forces would be "superior to those in any other time in our peacetime history...
...paper's letters column, opposite the editorials, bristles with the names of Cabinet members, foreign diplomats and U.S. Supreme Court Justices. Graham also said of the Post that it was "a good paper that needs a lot of improvement." That description fits too. Its Washington coverage is often superior, and farseeing. It exposed and then led the fight against Franklin Roosevelt's Supreme Court-packing bill. Concerned by the rising gangster influence on U.S. politics, Phil Graham handed U.S. Senator Estes Kefauver the idea for a congressional investigation. A Post editorial campaign helped assure civilian control...