Word: superiority
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...should be taken to task for not giving out with the story prevalent in the Fleet concerning "31-Knot Burke." While commanding a division of destroyers, the admiral somehow got off course and ended up in a minefield. When asked by his immediate superior what in hell he was doing over in that minefield, he calmly replied: "31 knots...
...Detroit, only two days before his Arlington speech, the Army's Brucker reasserted the Army's right (bitterly disputed by the Air Force) to the long-range ballistics missile, goaded the Air Force by claiming that the Army's weapons are superior because they "are not limited in their effectiveness by fog, rain, snow or any other adverse condition." ¶ In Akron, Assistant Navy Secretary James H. Smith Jr., on the eve of an abrupt retirement to private life,*refrained from specific criticism of the other services, nonetheless ruffled Air Force feathers by assigning to the Navy...
...Good Name. In Eureka, Calif., arrested for forging six checks totaling $230 in the name of District Attorney Harold L. Hammond, currently running for Superior Court judge, Clifford Melton Kusta explained: "I saw the name on a poster and figured it was a name that no one could question...
...revocation of Struik's suspension came one day after an indictment charging him with conspiracy to overthrow the Federal and State governments was quashed in Middlesex Superior Court. The quashing resulted from the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling that the Federal Smith Act superseded Massachusetts' subversives...
...Stridently, the landlords appealed to the bishop. "That priest is a social agitator," said Daniel Perez, whose family has held the same land since the Spanish conquest. The bishop took heed. "If you run as a candidate, you will be suspended," he warned the priest. Zamorano-torn between his superior and his backers-decided to run. He won, last month...