Word: superiorities
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...County couurts with a variety of names, such as superior court, supreme court, circuit court and court of common pleas...
Bosch's 30 plants and $500 million in sales grew from a small Stuttgart electrical shop, where Robert Bosch in 1886 started a modest business to install lightning rods, doorbells and telephones. He soon devised a new magneto-ignition that was superior to existing types, and in 1896 entered the young automobile business. He grew wealthy supplying such auto pioneers as Gottlieb Daimler, but continually worried over the money he made. Bosch gave away $5 million in World War I profits, explaining: "The profit I was making while other people were losing their lives depressed...
...story begins awkwardly with a judge reviewing the evidence in a child-custody battle. His problem: to decide whether a little girl thriving in a home "superior by every standard except one -the world we live in" should be taken from her white mother (Barrie) and her black stepfather (Bernie Hamilton) and given to her white father. A lengthy flashback recounts how a young blonde divorcee meets and marries a Negro fellow worker as climax to "an ordinary, everyday, uncomplicated relationship." Thus slighting the tough and painful realities of the problem posed, the film takes aim at the usual clay...
...mininum of bloodshed. De Gaulle went out of his way to insult the Communists publicly, no matter how bravely they lad fought in the Resistance. In Toulouse, when a Communist in proletarian overalls casually introduced himself, De Gaulle snapped: "Stand to attention when you are speaking to a superior officer." When De Gaulle finally entered Paris amid jubilant cheers, he was all calculation. "How far have you got with the purge?" were his first words to his newly appointed prefect...
...York Yacht Club selection committee wanted to lay the mark, Eagle was the superior boat, her crew the better crew. Only three times all summer has Cox lost a start; on rapid-fire tacking duels, his smoothly clicking crewmen usually pick up two or three seconds per tack (Cox started out with an intercom system to issue commands, has now dispensed with it because everyone has hand signals down pat). Cox makes the boat point higher and foot faster than any of her four rivals. In ten legs of windward work in the present series, she has gained a brisk...