Word: superior
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Where last week he was expelled from the Communist Party, dismissed from the intelligence service, and sent to a mental hospital. * When John Vassall, a homosexual Admiralty clerk, was convicted last October of spying for the Russians, Macmillan summarily fired the clerk's superior, Thomas Galbraith, who had written the clerk some letters starting "My dear Vassall." Galbraith was later wholly exonerated. * Though possibly not in Britain, where Tropic of Cancer has been a bestseller for months and the unexpurgated Lady Chatterley's Lover has sold 3,500,000 paperback copies...
...full-page advertisements that would bring a blush to a Victorian bartender. New manuals are published constantly, and most of their readers are not nubile neophytes but experienced men and women, interested in the nuances and fine points of the game, apparently anxious to be more like the sexually superior heroes and heroines of the bestsellers (all fictional heroes have to be sexually superior these days, or they are not heroes...
...Force Academy last week, President Kennedy dropped into his speech a new section that had not been in the text issued the day before. Said the President: "I'm announcing today that the United States will commit itself to develop a commercially successful supersonic transport superior to that being built in any other country in the world...
...were the latest outbursts in the ancient hostility between the nation's 5,250,000 Flemings in the north who speak a language related to Dutch, and the 4,000,000 French-speaking Walloons in the south. Since Belgium seceded from The Netherlands 133 years ago, the numerically superior Flemings have always resented the traditional economic and social superiority of the Walloons. "We're the only country in Europe with an oppressed majority," says Belgium's Flemish Premier...
...entire rhubarb, after all, was about nothing but money. The Broadway theater is indeed not dying. But it is not living very meaningfully either. At some expense to serious drama, it calculatedly emphasizes entertainment; but much of its chosen fluff fails utterly to entertain. When truly superior work comes along, it will always achieve Broadway production...