Word: superiors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sunday things were different, as the spikers met up with their first real competition all year. New Jersey had the greater size and strength, but the Crimson played superior volleyball, pulling off a 13-15, 15-4, 15-5, 6-15, 15-3 triumph...
...Harvard women's swimming team downed Penn, 93-56, Saturday in Philadelphia. Though the Crimson won only eight of the meet's 17 events, the swimmers' superior depth brought them a relatively easy victory...
Despite this and other indications of mass murder, Yaron failed to report the information to his superior, General Drori, that night or the following day. Afterward, when everyone knew about the massacre, Yaron told colleagues that "the whole [military] system showed insensitivity." He added, "I did badly, I admit it." The commission agreed. It recommended that Yaron should not serve as a field commander for at least three years...
...their relationship was sometimes stormy. "We always got along well together when we were alone," says Moore, "but sometimes when other people were around, there was a competition. One of us was always trying to get the better of the other and, in public, we each adopted a superior attitude. He was bored by my desire to please, and I scorned his relentless and perverse cynicism...
Kate Nelligan portrays Susan as a superior woman locked in the palace tower of her awful loneliness. Her performance is a little essay on exalted anxiety: allowing her suppressed anger to explode in a girlish squeal, semaphoring fear in a flash of the eyes, ragging her estranged husband for not feeling pain as exquisitely as she does. But there are some moments no one could bring to life. Who could infuse dramatic tension into the leisurely reading of a newspaper? What actress could bring off that old Oscar-cadging ploy, the sudden quiet hysterics in a bubble bath...