Word: superiorities
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...command of the U.S.S. Vance in Pearl Harbor shortly before Christmas 1965, he found the aging radar-picket destroyer "literally crawling with cockroaches," her bridge and ladders mottled with "coffee spillage," her forecastle the scene of frequent fistfights in which nonrated men "routinely intimidated, threatened and physically struck" their superior petty officers...
...villages, at the head of a regiment-sized column of armored cars and self-propelled artillery. After warning the Turks to submit or else, he sent three successive patrols through the village. When the third one drew fire, Grivas not only opened up on Ayios Theodoros with his vastly superior firepower but also commanded National Guardsmen to overrun the nearby village of Kophinou, whose main offense had been an attempt to replace its Greek name with a Turkish one. In the ensuing three-hour fight, 24 Turkish Cypriots were killed and nine wounded...
...dental students pursue almost identical courses for the first two years.) The quality of dental school applicants, he said, is lower than that of medical applicants. As a result, Ebert said, the admissions committee which chooses both sets of students "had become increasingly uncomfortable as it must turn away superior applicants while less qualified dental students fill their places in the classroom...
...enough for the Negro. "The racial crisis involves, before all else," wrote Arrupe, "a direct challenge to our sincerity in professing a Christian concept of man." Arrupe laid down a series of suggestions for U.S. Jesuits, including the creation of new missions in urban ghettos. He also ordered each superior to draw up a specific plan of action on behalf of Negroes in his province...
Princeton scored soon after on a penalty kick but was held to the 5-3 score until the end of the half, despite its superior playing style...