Word: superiors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pump toothpaste, Check-Up. Now Colgate-Palmolive is following with Colgate in a pump, and Lever Bros, has put out a pump version of Aim. Procter & Gamble started test-marketing a Crest pump in August. Packaging experts predict a tough battle over which brand's pump design is superior. Crest's model, for example, uses valves to extrude the paste, while Colgate's design has a piston mechanism. The new containers generally cost 20% more than tubes. Even so, the companies think they will have far more success than the last time they tried a radical departure...
...banner read: "The poll was wrong, they had to have lied, because you guys are superior to the Crimson Tide...
...Keffer, playing point guard, took control of the team from the opening tap. The guard logged a team-high 33 minutes and played with superior control, scoring six points and dishing out seven assists...
...Adventure of a Photographer", a maniacal tale of two-dimensional artistic obsession, is one of the finest short stories Calvino has written, certainly superior to Julio Cortazar's celebrated photo story "Blow-Up." In the latter, a photographer tries to piece together the reality behind a photograph, but Calvino's protagonist goes one better, trying to discover the reality to photograph. The coldest, funniest, and only perfect story in this volume, "Photographer" is fast climbing on my Hot 100 of the Twentieth Century...
...Gobind's martial principles, the tales of their valor and ferocity became legion. They routed the Afghans at the Battle of Attock in 1813, and in 1849 they delivered a stinging defeat to the British at the Battle of Chillianwala. After they were forced to succumb to superior British firepower six weeks later, the Sikhs became among the sturdiest and trustiest men of the British army: during the great Indian Mutiny of 1857, the raj was kept alive by their support. After the British slaughtered nearly 400 civilians, many of them Sikhs, at Amritsar in 1919, the warriors changed...