Word: superior
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tiny movement, which seeks to restore the all-Latin Mass in U.S. parishes. De Pauw argued that the council's adoption of the vernacular was "protestantizing" the Mass, and that the bishops had been duped into accepting it by left-wing theologians. Cardinal Shehan, De Pauw's superior, angrily ordered him to get out of the movement...
William A. Doebele, Jr., the Design School's associate dean for development, termed the new location "far superior because it's much larger...
Gringo Grumbles. Mexico's motives are not altogether selfless. It would like to boost exports and build a stake in the thriving, 12 million-consumer Central American Common Market. This in turn led some Central American businessmen, worried about superior competition from what they refer to as the "Colossus of the North," to grumble about Mexico's "imperialistic" intentions-precisely as generations of Mexican anti-gringos have fretted in the shadow of Mexico's neighbor across the Rio Grande. To soothe their fears, Díaz Ordaz specifically promised no economic or political interference. Said he crisply...
...Traynor gave California another first when he ruled in People v. Riser that prosecutors ordinarily must allow defendants to "discover" (examine) evidence to be used against them at the trial. Characteristically, Traynor went on to enlarge the discovery privileges of prosecutors in 1961 (Jones v. Superior Court). Today, California probably tops all other states in liberal discovery rules. To deny such access, says Traynor, is "to lose sight of the true purpose of a criminal trial, to discover the facts...
...spent his life refusing to conform. Edward Kirkland, professor emeritus of American history at Bowdoin College, deftly exposes the reasons why. He concludes that while Adams is little remembered today, he was the most brilliant Adams of a generation in which the family's genius flowered. However, his superior talents made him impatient and irascible. "He resented having been born young," Professor Kirkland says. He also resented having been born an Adams, and in his 60s he formally stated why this was so: "In plain language, I do not like my own father-a strong, not generous, kindly...