Word: superior
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...piece about Chicago Daily News Columnist Royko [July 1] recalls the fact that in Cleveland, we have a street named Kosciuszko. There is a story that a policeman stopped in the station, told his superior there was a dead horse on Kosciuszko. The officer said, "Well, make out your report." The policeman, a poor speller, disappeared. After an hour, he came back disheveled and out of breath. His officer demanded to know where he had been. Replied he: "I moved the horse to 79th Street...
Special & Superior. The privileges of members vary. The Ambassadors and Admirals clubs have expansive quarters on the top deck of Washington's National Airport, fitted with armchairs, thick carpets, oil paintings, and lockers for private liquor supplies. The 150,000 members of United's 100,000-Mile Club have entry to "Red Carpet Rooms" at airports, get special luggage tags and receive a newsletter. Club members don't travel any faster, but a Clipper Club member may rise rapidly to the top of a Pan Am waiting list...
...There is something honorable and worthwhile in giving up one's career for service to one's country. To use one's superior intellect, position in life or possible future contributions to society as collateral against such service smacks of something other than democracy. To relieve a fellow of national service merely because he possesses a Ph.D. (or may, or could) or because he doesn't really want to serve does him and his country a severe disservice. He should be precisely the person called upon to perform the meanest of services, for he is supposedly...
...Anthony Eden's government forced the Israeli withdrawal from Sinai. Nevertheless, Dayan and his fellow Israelis believe that the Sinai escapade convinced Nasser of the "readiness of Israel to take to the sword to secure her rights, and the capacity of her army to defeat" a numerically superior and better armed enemy...
...Crusaders, variously estimated at 70,000 to 600,000 strong, poured into Asia Minor, took the quarreling Turkish sultans by surprise, defeated them, and then captured Antioch, the city of 400 towers, by assault. Besieged in Antioch by a superior army of the atabeg of Mosul, the Crusaders were saved by a miracle of their own faith. Fired by the conviction that an old, rusty piece of iron unearthed beneath an Antioch church was the lance with which the Roman soldier had pierced the side of the crucified Christ, the Crusaders, half-starved and crazed with religious fanaticism, swept...