Word: superior
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...refrigerator. Half the population spend their holidays away from home, and half the younger generation attend the movies once a week at 50? a seat. One-quarter of the adult population either play in or watch a football (soccer) or cricket match every week. All this, plus the superior feeling that one has just for being English, on an average income of $2,100 a year...
...vice premier, was getting clandestine arms shipments from Gamal Abdel Nasser's U.A.R., freely used terror to consolidate its control over neighboring Kivu province. Escaping missionaries were prevented from crossing the border, prisoners of the old pro-Mobutu regime at Bukavu were tortured, and the Mother Superior and a nun from Bukavu's hospital were under arrest for alleged misuse of funds...
Playing on the Trappist reputation for making superior products down through the ages (the order was founded in the 11th century), other monasteries have also decided to go to market as a means of support...
Tunes of Glory. A superior piece of entertainment, thanks to brilliant performances by Alec Guinness as an up-from-the-ranks Scottish colonel waging the internecine peace of barracks life, and John Mills as a fatally weak martinet...
Shadows on the Grass, by Isak Dinesen. This aristocratic Danish author of superior Gothic romances has fashioned a nonfictional still life, elegiac in mood, diamantine in craft, of her past as a coffee planter in Kenya...