Word: superiority
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...subversion present in the racial unrest in our state . . . deliberately planned by the Communist Party. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People appears to have been heavily infiltrated with subversives and, wittingly or unwittingly, is now a captive of the Communist apparatus." ¶In Charlotte, N.C., Superior Court Judge Walter Johnston Jr. denied an N.A.A.C.P. request for the release of two Monroe Negro boys from the state reform school. The boys, David Simpson, 8, and James Thompson, 10, were locked up on Oct. 29 after a white mother complained that the older boy had forced her seven-year...
Despite those lost years, the U.S. has just about closed the ballistic-missile gap. As most U.S. missilemen see it, the U.S.'s ballistic missiles are, militarily speaking, superior to the U.S.S.R.'s. The Russian rocket that carried the Lunik into orbit produced a lot more thrust than any U.S. missile, but if the military job of a ballistic missile is to travel accurately from one point on the globe to another with a warhead in its nose, U.S. missiles appear fit to do the job at least as well as their bulkier Russian counterparts...
...West Coast for applicants," he asked, "when there are plenty of local boys, willing and able to do Harvard work?" Nothing that "there are many students in this area who are superior to our present marginal students," he explained that many of these boys are "scared away from applying by the high cost of residence...
...decisive factor on these drives was, generally speaking, the superior speed of the Soviet wings. In their playing pattern, one of the wings would speed down ice with the puck, drawing the Crimson players with him into a corner. Then the pass would go out to one of the points for a long shot on Pratt, and after the rebound, either from Pratt of off the boards, the Russians would play in front of the cage for the decisive shot, passing out to the point if the puck floated into a corner again...
Supporters of the proposed Armenian Church on Brattle St. have received the backing of the Superior Court in their efforts to construct an edifice which would exceed the allowed building height in the residential area...