Word: superior
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Beautiful Bait is the superior play and seems like a foray into the enchanted realm of a child's dream. It is acted by wondrously well-trained youngsters, none older than 17. The plot: a wicked prime minister, Tung Cho, tries to overthrow a royal dynasty. A loyal statesman dangles a beautiful girl (Wang Fu-jung) as bait before Tung Cho and his general...
...similar test two years ago brought a number of student complaints, according to Central Kitchen officials. "The roast beef isn't really bad at all," said one. "The report praises the `superior Adams House roast beef' lavishly. But the Adams House beef is the same meat Central Kitchen serves...
Washington has appealed the assault and battery conviction to Superior Court, where he will get a jury trial. A date for the new trial has not yet been set, but will probably be scheduled for some time around the end of the month...
Elijah's Hopes. Negroes, he writes, "are taught really to despise themselves from the moment their eyes open on the world. This world is white and they are black. White people hold the power, which means that they are superior to blacks . . . and the world has innumerable ways of making this difference known and felt and feared." When Baldwin was ten, two white cops "amused themselves with me by frisking me, making comic (and terrifying) speculations concerning my ancestry and probable sexual prowess, and, for good measure, leaving me flat on my back in one of Harlem...
...Board. But sewing machines are still what make Singer's business hum. A decade ago, competition from cheaper Japanese machines and technologically superior European machines such as Pfaff and Necchi had Singer breathing hard. But today Singer's American-made "Slant-O-Matic" has recaptured technological superiority, and the machines that the company makes in overseas plants to be sold in the U.S. compete with the Japanese in price. Singer now holds more than 40% of the U.S. sewing-machine market and is picking up another 2% each year. Abroad, where the fastest growth in sewing-machine sales...