Word: supers
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...Voting Rights Act of 1965. Through five heady years, the Great Society seemed to embody the full and resplendent maturity of liberalism, fending off the forces of reaction and ushering in a bright new day. In the ensuing decades, it came to look a lot more like liberalism's super-nova: a final, white-hot burst before its dark collapse...
...informal speech titled "Beyond the Call of Duty: Lessons for the University from Jewish Law," Green said the concept of "super-arrogation," or going beyond what is explicitly required, is a good guide for decision-making by students and administrators...
...people we definitely try to get jobs for while they're here, so donations of that kind would be super," Stanford said...
Leguizamo, 28, comes from the streets. Born in Bogota and raised in New York City, he prides himself on mixing quick wit and acute perception with the cadences and carriage of a tenement tough. After a string of movies, including the forthcoming big-budget fantasy thriller Super Mario Brothers (from which, he claims, he was "almost fired for coming across too Hispanic"), he is back onstage thumbing his nose both at bourgeois ethnic critics and at what he sees as pervasive racism in the mainstream with the defiantly titled Spic-O-Rama...
Sportswise, that was a dynasty with substantial heft. It lasted the better part of a decade and led to three triumphs in the Super Bowl. As a result, Walsh first had the cloak of greatness draped around his shoulders. Then, as the championships accumulated, the purveyors of hyperbole whisked it away and replaced it with the heavier mantle that bore the title "genius." The fact that Walsh on occasion used words such as "sublime" to describe the play of his team certainly set him apart from those in the pro-football fraternity, whose grammatical constructions often drift toward the martial...