Word: superiority
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lung, 52, got his guerrilla training early in World War II at a special British school in Singapore. He commanded the Communists' daringly successful "3rd Independent Force" during the Japanese occupation, after the war turned the regiment against the British. By 1953, he had only one superior among the Communists of the south-a terrorist named Ah Kuk, and known as "Shorty." Shorty's own bodyguards soon took care of that. Learning that there was $66,000 on their master's head, they decided to deliver that head-minus the body-to the police. After that...
...study the local cattle-slaughtering techniques on remote farms, where the gentle beasts, with tender humaneness, are made drunk on a bucketful of shochu-crude native booze-before they are led, staggering, carefree and mooing gratefully in a what-the-hell mood, to the poleax. Gourmets attribute the superior quality of Kobe beef to this alcoholic anesthesia as much as to the sensitive Japanese habit of massaging the cattle regularly once a week, thereby marbling the fat through the steak...
...program of student loans of up to $1,000 annually for five years (repayable by eleven years after graduation). Cost: $295 million altogether for the next four fiscal years. Special consideration will be given to students who want to teach in elementary or secondary schools, and to students with superior background in or capacity for science, mathematics, engineering or a modern foreign language. Half the sum of loans will be forgiven to students who teach for at least five years...
Married. Marie Dionne, 24, one of four survivors of the famed Canadian quintuplets, who in 1953 entered a convent to become a nun, but left before taking her permanent vows; and Florian Houle, 38, onetime student for the priesthood, and now a clerk at the Quebec Superior Court; in Montreal. Of the living quints, only Yvonne is now unmarried...
...caption implying that Kubitschek was pleading desperately with a sardonically grinning Dulles. Jeered Congressman Carlos Lacerda in his Tribuna da Imprensa: "Kubitschek, the President, rises respectfully to talk to Secretary Dulles in a language which cannot be understood. For it is the language of a subaltern speaking to a superior...