Word: trumped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Negro had played his trump card: he had reminded this group of white liberals that he is black, and has had experiences they can never know without changing their color. There was nothing the whites could say. For most Harvard undergraduates argue from emotion: they base their judgments about things moral and political on their own feelings--and by asserting his emotional uniqueness, the Negro had deprived the whites of any grounds for refutation...
...somber, brooding mirage of sets by Mario Cristini (who spent 25 years with the San Carlo Opera in Naples), a cast of 66, a 62-voice chorus and the 74-piece Indiana University Philharmonic Orchestra, Parsifal would have done almost any opera house proud. Said Bain, who can trump any compliment: "Indiana University's production of Parsifal symbolizes a new kind of education in the musical arts...
Wells the director always has one trump card to play in his films: Welles the actor. His Moor is in the tradition of his great roles, the Charles Kanes and the Harry Limes. His best scene is his appearance before the Doge of Venice, in which he defends his courtship of Desdemona...
Birdlike Wings. Each can make a good argument that it should get the award. At North American, Chairman Lee Atwood holds a trump as builder of the RS-70, whose top speed of 2,000 m.p.h. makes it by far the fastest bomber ever produced. Chairman Courtlandt Gross's Lockheed has never built a big supersonic plane but gained experience and repute with its highly successful F-104 Starfighter. President William Allen's Boeing has the most passenger jet experience as builder of the 707. It has also spent $17 million of its own on SST research, designing...
...advantages from the Kennedy name are paternal as well as fraternal; big brother is President, but father is a devout philanthropist, and in Massachusetts religion and charity are issues. Ted's organization is another trump: Kennedy forces take maximum advantage of both citizen groups and traditional local machines. Advance publicity, scheduling, contacts, communications run unbelievably smoothly...