Word: superior
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Constitution, a document he considers to be "the finest thing to come out of the mind of man." He has four rooms full of books about the Constitution in his home office back in Morganton, N.C. Before going to the Senate, he served as a superior court judge and as an associate justice on the state Supreme Court. The late House Speaker Sam Rayburn referred to Ervin as "my lawyer," consulted him on the constitutionality of pending legislation...
...nonexistent anhydrous ammonia storage tanks. The ammonia is a gas under normal atmospheric conditions; it must be stored in tanks to keep it liquid. Working with Superior Manufacturing Co., a Texas firm that made ammonia tanks. Estes persuaded a lot of West Texas farmers to go through the motions of purchasing tanks from Superior on credit, taking out mortgages on them, and leasing them back to Estes. Estes conveniently made the lease payments equal to the mortgage payments, so the farmer would not have to pay out any money. Estes explained to the farmers that he needed the tanks...
...also loves the headmaster's daughter. The headmaster - a superior comic creation by Leo McKern - is so cheap that he is not above stealing a pencil from a teacher's desk. A man like that is not about to spin off his daughter to a teacher who earns 1,500 francs a year...
Manipulating masterfully, Miss Murdoch turns out a deft three-in-one book: a sort of combined superior soap opera, teddibly British novel of sensibility, and philosophical inquiry into reality...
...every day a bell is rung as a homing sound for wanderers "lost in the forest." Following Joan's example, all the sisters have gone erotically mad; they dance naked in their courtyard. Near the convent is a charred stake where the priest who fathered the mother superior's two children died by fire...