Word: superiority
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...stopped us, and pointed me over to his superior officer sitting in a police van. The officer was listening to a hysterical voice on his walkie-talkie. "Our men have run out of tear-gas in the city," the cop explained to me worriedly. "Now these people are heading towards the airport...
...night fell, I found myself holding a commander's two-way radio and talking to other leaders in the area, which elicited howls of delight from my hosts. A rug was placed on the floor and we ate dinner with some commanders. The Taliban's larder is far superior to any other in Afghanistan and we gorged ourselves on several different types of mutton curry scooped up with nan. After the lower ranks were fed, we were shown to our room. We had clearly won some trust: the walls were lined with rows...
...uncommon man, a decent man, and he has a certain nobility. He’s surprisingly erudite. I think he was a man not a lot of people paid attention to and never had much of a public relations machinery, but I think he’s a very superior man; I like him. There are a lot of fascinating people there....but when you ask that who’s the surprise, Shali pops to mind...
...hallmark of Bush’s outlook on the crisis, and that is why he has been so successful at rallying public support. The American people naturally want their leaders to exhibit a spirit of hopeful resilience. This was the secret to Ronald W. Reagan’s superior oratory skills; rather than emphasizing the gravity of a problem, Reagan focused on the righteousness and certainty of the solution. At the 1992 Republican National Convention, he intimated, “...whatever else history may say about me when I’m gone, I hope it will record that...
...else. Shaquille O’Neal has blossomed into the most dominant inside presence we’ve seen in decades, and no one really cares. Vince Carter hurdles over seven-footers, and no one cares. Allen Iverson and Kobe Bryant and Stephon Marbury lead a new generation of superior ballers, and no one bats an eyelash because they aren’t Y-O-U. Only now are the masses beginning to realize that there is more to the NBA than Michael Jordan, and that there may have been even when you were here. But that?...