Word: superior
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conflict, a valid moral struggle, character development and people one can care about and respect" (Theater) is "superior soap opera in blackface" (Cinema) then we, who have been in radio and television these many years, have been doing Procter & Gamble a disservice...
...John Kennedy's admiring biographer, in the New Republic. "The adjectives tumble over one another. He is not only the handsomest, the best-dressed, the most articulate, and graceful as a gazelle. He is omniscient; he swallows and digests whole books in minutes; he confounds experts with his superior knowledge of their field. He is omnipotent." Burns was worried, and so was many another Presidential admirer, that John Kennedy and his family might soon suffer ill effects from public overexposure. Wrote Burns: "The buildup is too indiscriminate. The buildup will not last. The public can be cruel...
...Angeles fulfills mostly ceremonial functions, and in this role, Norris Poulson, 65, an accountant and former Republican Congressman, is an unqualified success. He gets to his office promptly at 7:30 a.m., turns to his task with an unfettered spirit, and even his enemies admit that he is a superior civic greeter, ribbon snipper and proclamation signer. He achieved brief national fame in 1959, when he told Visitor Nikita Khrushchev off in no uncertain terms...
Enter Wally. She was a pretty girl with' long 1941 hair and memorable blue eyes, but she seldom went out, and had an aversion to all but the tallest boys. "They had to be ready for Ringling's," she recalls. At Marywood, she dabbled in dramatics, played the mother superior in The Kingdom of God. During her sophomore year, Walter Francis Kerr came to Scranton to see a student performance of Romeo and Juliet. Jean was the stage manager. He was 5 ft. 8 in. and pushing 30, but soon she was telling her mother, with a gesture toward...
...demonstration outside the court and a night of carousing in Johannesburg's black quarters. Many a white man was relieved to discover that, however fanatically the legislature had backed the apartheid doctrine of Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd and apartheid's underlying axiom that white men are inherently superior to black men, South Africa's judges retained a dedication to law and the belief that all men are equal under...