Word: superiors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...result, some overburdened women are dying young. The introduction of Western agricultural techniques has also undermined the self-esteem of the Danis: the missionaries can raise superior crops and 300-lb. pigs, five times as large as those the tribes were producing. Says Bob Lehnhart, an official of the Mission Aviation Fellowship, which flies
...Brains. Justice Holmes called Franklin Roosevelt "a second-class intellect but a first-class temperament." The President needs superior intelligence (at least a B from Holmes) but need not be brilliant, deep or bh'ndingly original. He needn't be an intellectual, and we have not been threatened with one lately...
...very grateful to President Reagan. When we got the offer of F-16s, we jumped. With this aircraft, our borders, which are now threatened by the Soviet presence in Afghanistan, will be somewhat secure. Of course, 40 planes cannot make all the difference, but the presence of a superior aircraft gives you at least that much moral as well as military ascendancy...
...secret heroine of Hollywood movies: the divine masochist, the superior woman battered by fate, society, ham-fisted men and her own acute facility for self-destruction. Serious actresses, itching to play something more demanding than bimbettes and stand-by wives, love divine masochist roles. They get to run through huge emotions, from innocence through every sordid experience, often embracing rarefied forms of madness and an early, spectacular death. Playing the suffering saint can make and shape an actress's career (like Garbo's); it can win fans, raves and Oscars. This year the only sure shots for Best...
...Harvard men's swimming team entered the U.S. Military Academy's Olympic Natatonum Saturday with the same strategy the U.S. Army hoped would work in the rice saddles of Southeast Asia winning with superior tire power. The Crimson though had the muscle to finish what it started edging the Cadets...