Word: superior
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...indicates that the Kremlin's boss decided at least six months ago against the whole idea of joining a test-ban treaty. In all probability, Khrushchev has been under heavy pressure from his own generals who demand an armory of refined, small nuclear weapons to match the superior variety of tactical weapons already developed by the U.S. for such tactical missiles as Minuteman and Polaris...
Tuesday was the turning point. The men ashore had fought bravely and gained their planned objectives. They had even seized and bulldozed the airfield. But they were desperately short of ammunition and food, and under the pressure of Castro's superior fire power and number they were being forced back across the beach. There remained one last chance to make the thing go. Boxer was still on station. The release of a few of its jets simply for air cover should see two landing craft with ammunition and rations safely to the shore...
Coal & Chocolate Bars. Though many U.S. businessmen know better than to assume inevitable superiority for U.S. technology, others are insufficiently aware of what industrialists in the rest of the world are up to. In Western Europe the pace of automation is steadily quickening, as industry within the expanding Common Market gains the same cost-saving benefits of big-volume sales long enjoyed by U.S. business. Already, in a few fields, the Europeans can point to factories and techniques equal or superior to any in the U.S. Items...
...Hall to the address of the oldest house (No. 5 Burgstrasse), he makes his facts sound like discoveries and his Munich sausages appetizing enough to nibble. Edinburgh, with its floral clock, riot of tartans, and Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, gives Sasek's artistry more scope. This superior junior travel guide deserves a special skirl of the bagpipes...
...perfecting our society, by encouraging men and women to trust each other, to behave responsibly toward each other and toward the world, by bringing to pass here and now a way of life that will not have to be 'sold,' a way of life so incomparably superior and happier and more just that the alien virus cannot possibly establish itself within...