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Word: superiorities (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...news reports already concentrating on Israel's overall victory. Now, as military censors release the first detailed accounts of the fight for those rugged hilltops, the battle can be recognized as a classic of its kind-a case history of the triumph of tactics and courage over superior force entrenched on all-but-unassailable terrain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel: A Campaign for the Books | 9/1/1967 | See Source »

...they would in the hospital. The unit has proved so effective that in its first 15 months of operation not one of the 312 heart patients taken to the Royal Victoria has died in transit. Once in the hospital, many-perhaps most-of them have fared better because superior treatment was started so promptly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cardiology: Immediate Counterattack | 9/1/1967 | See Source »

...Girl, Hiroshima, Treasure Island and the Bible's Book of Esther. Then they read the books, discussed them, wrote papers about them, acted out some of the roles, prepared newspapers based on the stories. At the end of the project, compared with kids in regular classes, they showed superior ability in reading comprehension, understanding words, effective written expression. They did just as well as the regular students in grammar and spelling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Good English from Good Books | 9/1/1967 | See Source »

Communists, after all, were superior in numbers and organization. So well prepared was Ho that when the Diem government in South Viet Nam called off the vote, he was ready to try another kind of takeover. To a 10,000-strong network of Viet Minh he had left behind in the South, he sent orders for the start of what has now become the century's second longest war in Asia (after the Malayan guerrilla war against the British...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War: The Organization Man | 8/25/1967 | See Source »

...Because of his testimony, Kielbasa and Kummerol are eventually brought before an international war-crimes tribunal. The captain's defense is that the slaughter was "an operational necessity," essential to preserve his own crew. Gunnery Officer Kummerol's defense is that of a subordinate obeying a superior officer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Real Crime | 8/25/1967 | See Source »

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