Word: superiority
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only out of loyalty to the company or because their political consciences forbade them to sing for the Communists. Still, the Municipal Opera made out, and when the rival companies mounted simultaneous productions of, say, Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier, it was a tossup which was superior (although neither achieved the standard of the old Berlin State Opera, New York's Metropolitan or Milan's La Scala...
...anti-communist propaganda. It is clear from the statement of the Central Committee of the CPSU itself that the people in the Soviet orbit (which includes Red China) are not only well fed, but are enjoying the fruits of a system which they themselves declare to be far superior to that of "decadent Capitalist" production in the United States...
...true birder, that is the kind of challenge that compensates for the long, cold hours, the waiting, the superior smile of more lethal sportsmen. There's nothing quite like the glow of inner pride when a devoted birder spots a rarity. One who glowed this season was Ben Coffey Jr. of Memphis, who saw seven pine siskins (common enough in the North, but rare in the mid-South and beyond) on his Mississippi count around a crossroads hamlet named Kara Avis...
...advice on land redistribution in India and on Formosa, where he became a staunch friend of Chiang Kaishek. He venerated MacArthur, who awarded him a Certificate of Achievement. The Japanese government gave him a plaque for his "great and lasting services," and the U.S. Agriculture Department gave him its "Superior Service Award." He pushed U.S. agricultural sales to Japan, amounting last year to $480 million, about one-fourth of all American farm exports...
...dared not flout and affront, even with his own life too at stake, our cultural postulate of the infallibility of machines, instruments, gadgets. I grieve for him, for that moment's victims. We all had better grieve for all people beneath a culture which holds any mechanical [gadget] superior to any man simply because the one, being mechanical, is infallible, while the other, being nothing but man, is not just subject to failure but doomed...