Word: superior
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years since Marx promised his Communist apocalypse, when a new and superior kind of nonbourgeois man would be born, and 30 years or so since Poet W. B. Yeats warned against a possibly similar event-"the blood-dimmed tide," when a "rough beast, its hour come round at last, / Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born." But things, it seems, are neither so bad, nor so good, nor so interesting. According to the researches of U.S. Economist David Granick, Soviet Russia's new man is a devoutly respectable, ulcer-prone businessman with a close resemblance to George F. Babbitt...
...afternoon on the elevator job. "To break the monotony," he passed up the sure-thing $150-a-day fee on two of those days to look for - and find - a 1,800-lb. anchor lost by the government ice breaker Alexander Henry last fall. That treasure made his Superior Diving & Salvaging Co. $650 richer...
Booked Up. Coghlan, who currently lives with his 19-year-old wife and infant daughter in a house trailer parked on the Port Arthur harbor ice, was overdue for some luck. Last summer a sudden Lake Superior gale swallowed Superior's 60-ft. barge, with equipment worth $20,000. Coghlan, fished out after five minutes in the lake, had no applicable insurance, was left with little equipment and $8,000 in debts. Steady elevator-inspection work now has the debts "under control," and Coghlan has bookings for $50,000 more of the same this year. But he yearns...
...meet will be won by superior lineup juggling, at which Coach Brooks is quite skillful. His most potent weapon is Bob Kaufmann, who can swim, and hopefully win, the 50 and 100-yard freestyle, or the 200-yard backstroke, and be the key in either relay...