Word: superior
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SOVIET MISSILES. Though McNamara vowed that the U.S. would always maintain a sizable lead over the Russians, many Congressmen were alarmed by his report that Moscow has more than doubled its land-based intercontinental-ballistic-missile force, to 720, in a year. Clifford agrees that the U.S. "must be superior" in missile strength...
...months to obtain a civil jury trial for a personal injury case in the metropolitan areas of the nation. In Suffolk County, New York, it is 50 months. In the Circuit Court of Cook County, serving Chicago, it is 64 months plus. The clerk of the Suffolk Superior Court in Massachusetts, where the present delay in such civil cases is almost four years, forecast in early December 1967 that it will soon increase to five years. In New York City, as of June 30, 1967, there were 26,397 civil trial cases, most involving personal injury suits according...
Avatar lawyer Harvey A. Silverglate of Crane, Inker, and Oteri, immediately appealed the decision to the Superior Court...
...Your Essay on "Limits of U.S. Power" [Feb. 16] is commendable for urging discretion in the use of force. It failed to mention, however, that reliance on force requires superior force, and that in the test of battle no nation is apt to choose defeat without resorting to its maximum weapons. Therefore, deterrence appears plausible during peace, but once conflict begins, reliance on force ultimately provides no outcome other than ignominious defeat, unrelenting stalemate, or nuclear immolation. The nature of war has changed, and futility of the method rather than discretion in its use would have been a truer message...
...tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile." In Jordan's phrasing, the threat comes out: "Hellfire and brimstone upon every son of a gun who works for the wrong, whether he's a 'superior' white or a Negro." Romans 1:25 excoriates those "who changed the truth of God into a lie"; this becomes, in Jordanese, "These wise guys swapped God's truth for an outright lie." 1 Thessalonians 4:3 states: "For this is the will of God, even your sanctification...