Word: superiorities
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rode in Skoda trucks, wore uniforms made in Red China, packed Czech submachine guns, Russian recoilless rifles and Chinese-made mortars. Against them were ranged a motley collection of lightly armed Wilaya 4 guerrillas, most of them hardly more than boys. Though the regulars were plainly holding back their superior firepower at Boghar, heavy fighting took place near mountainous Aumale, about 60 miles to the east, where determined guerrillas could have stopped Ben Bella's forces for months if they had wished. In all, more than 100 men died and 400 were wounded before the single...
Roseveare's superior. Archbishop of West Africa Cecil J. Patterson, defended Roseveare's criticism as "temperate and necessary." But last week Interior Minister Kwaku Boateng called Roseveare on the carpet, ordered him to leave the country within nine hours; then for bad measure he banished Archbishop Patterson as well. Sneered the Ghanaian Times as Roseveare departed: "His presence in our dear land was not conducive to the public good. Perhaps a knighthood from his imperialist monarchs and some violent falsehoods about Ghana will compensate for the egoistic propensities of this Lucifer of a priest.'' Kwame Nkrumah...
...born: the America's Cup became a symbol of national pride, national purpose-and, as it turned out, national frustration. The British tried 15 times to win the cup, the Canadians twice. Their combined efforts cost perhaps $25 million, and all met with defeat at the hands of superior Yankee design, tactics, or luck. The contests were rarely close: out of 54 races for the cup, U.S. boats lost only five...
...Ralph Houk, he'll tell you that the American League is really superior to the National, that the greater competition credited to the senior circuit is a myth...
...NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. Mostly because of launch difficulties, none of the JPL's first four Ranger spacecraft has yet sent usable data back from the moon. But the next two are almost finished, and JPL considers them much superior to their predecessors. The job of Ranger 5 will be to land (at 100 m.p.h.) a package of tough instruments on the moon. A temperature-sensing device will report the moon's horribly hot and cold climate over a tiny radio, and a seismometer will feel the ground for moon-quakes or shocks...