Word: superior
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact that about four African states have recognized Biafra and France has made gestures that have enhanced Biafra's dignity as a nation." He added that the Biafrians' situation was similar to the Isrealis. Both countries are heavily intellectual groups set upon by less educated peoples who have superior numbers. "To borrow a phrase, the highly-civilized have been bombed back into living in caves," Mayer added. He pointed to the Biafrans' skill in setting up petroleum distilleries from scratch. "They are very inventive, and experiment constantly to find out how best to use their resources...
California's attorney general, meanwhile, was preparing two suits for over $100 million each against the Federal Government and Union Oil for damage to wildlife and the shore line. Private suits, such as the one filed in Santa Barbara Superior Court for over $1 billion, may well be joined with the state action...
...Harvard basketball team, letting down badly after a superior performance against Columbia on Thursday, lost its seventh Ivy game in nine starts at Cornell, Saturday...
...Penn's superior strength in the lower positions was decisive as Harvard was able to salvage only one victory in the last six positions. Ed Atwood at number seven accounted for that one victory as he held on to win the third game, 18-17, and the match...
Owls and Introverts. The relatively new interdisciplinary science of sleep research may eventually come to vindicate the groggy "owls" and deflate the superior pretentions of the "larks." Humans run on still-mysterious physiological clocks, their body temperatures dipping as much as 2 degrees in the middle of the night and rising toward morning. Late risers, one explanation runs, simply may not be hot enough to get up easily. Deep sleep and light sleep also alternate at different rates; many researchers now argue that slow risers are in a period of heavy sleep when their alarm clocks clang. For yet unexplained...