Word: superior
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...order, he said, was "a hilarious climax to a chain of injustices." Concluded he: "The rights of individuals have been suppressed." For such talk, Owen was brought before a court martial board on charges of violating Article 89 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice-disrespect toward superior officers. It took the board only 27 minutes to order him put away until late September-just about the time his division has been scheduled for release...
...took place in what is perhaps the most economically advanced nation on the continent-a rich land of spreading pampas, beef and grain, in which no Gaucho or laborer needs to go hungry. It is a land whose 20 million people, mostly of European immigrant descent, consider themselves infinitely superior to the citizens of neighboring Latin countries. It is urban and modern: one-third of the nation live within the capital city of Buenos Aires, a Parisian city whose aristocracy is the most sophisticated in Latin America. More than half of the nation live either in the capital...
Allocations under the program include funds for building five new upperclass dormitories. The projected dorms, besides offering generally superior rooms, will be social centers with parietal privileges and other benefits now available only to fraternity members...
...backfire of the Administration's crass political attempt to tag them as anti-city and anti-Negro in the move to establish a Department of Urban Affairs. They note that the House recently passed a Republican version of a manpower retraining bill that even Democrats conceded was far superior to the Administration bill. They strongly sense a national conservative trend-but they argue about how to take advantage of it. They fear-with reason-that the G.O.P. as a party is not projecting itself to the U.S. as a positive force...
Nothing went into the Journal that did not please them both, though Bruce often bowed graciously to his wife's instinct for what was right. "I don't think that men edit women's magazines very well," he once said. "They always take a superior attitude toward women." The Goulds looked upon the Journal's readers as part of the family, and chatted amiably in print about the places they had visited, the people they had seen. Last week they sadly bade their huge family goodbye...