Word: superiority
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gramophones. Every writer must have a country to call his own; Mary McCarthy's is the country of the little magazine, the off-beat college and the mobile-hung menage.-It is more remorselessly competitive than the business world to which it feels superior. It is a world always at war, and Mary McCarthy's far-from-secret weapon is to write her enemies-and friends-into her books. Despite her demurrers, the game of "spot-the-model" goes on. Experts in this game can tell that Taub in The Oasis is really the editor of a certain...
...even Zipper Thompson and Piscuskas should be forced to settle for short-gain end runs. The varsity line interior of Captain Bill Meigs, Jan Meyer, John Maher, Tice and Metropoulos have been described by Bruin coach Al Kelley as being "as good as any in the Ivy League and superior, at least, to Yale...
...help from the Western foreign ministers. He told them that his people were so wrought up over the Egyptian deal that they were seriously thinking of launching a preventive war ("I hope to God that Israel will not be driven to this") before the Egyptians could turn their superior new weapons on them. He pleaded with the Western ministers to i) guarantee his country's borders, and 2) sell it arms at least equal to those its enemies were unpacking...
Last week the sentences were passed. For the ex-priest, four months in prison; for the mother superior of a Dutch convent school where Anneke had once stayed, six months (the other mother superior was acquitted); for Elizabeth Van Moorst. a year; for her sister Geertruida, eight months. But Elizabeth and Geertruida were nowhere to be found. And Anneke Beekman is still missing...
...Harvey, Halliday, and Brewer were not defeated. They prepared to appeal the Superior Court decision before the the State Supreme Court. Brewer drew up a new brief, a 51-page document which cites over a hundred precedents and references, and on May 5, 1955, he argued his case before the full panel of the Court...