Word: excellently
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...alive, says Bainbridge, is the cheapness of life. More people are killed in Texas traffic accidents than in any other state except California, which has about 40% higher population. Perhaps, Bainbridge suggests, it's all the result of the old pioneer spirit. "Texans behind the wheel tend to excel by far all other Americans in aggressiveness, perhaps in this respect outclassing even the Germans. Courtesy can be expected on the splendid Texas highway system only from the lily-livered...
Brigitte Bardot and Pablo Picasso excel in their arts, share alliterative names, dote on the South of France and enjoy worldwide fame-and that is not all they have in common. BB, when clothed, often wears a silver circle necklace with a pendant of Venetian crystal. PP, when he puts on a shirt, sports a pair of silver cuff links adorned with delicately hued beach pebbles. The jewelry is the work of a lithe Swedish girl named Torun Bulow-Hube, who lives with her husband in the tiny Riviera village of Biot and is known to a growing coterie...
Almost every boy in the U.S. has dinned into him the idea that he must excel his father?a guaranteed producer of anxiety, by Freudian theory, if the boy has grown
...idolizing his father as a paragon of power and virtues. The process is severest in the sons of outstandingly successful men: their anxiety neuroses are as notorious as the traditional case of the preacher's son becoming a drunkard. A career girl is shredded by the need to excel father or mother or both, and for her the problem may be complicated by Oedipal feelings toward father...
Away from home, he began to enjoy minor heresies. He got good marks at the Academy from force of habit, but he was too busy trying (unsuccessfully) to make the varsity baseball team, too busy having a good time, to excel. He sneaked forbidden smokes, wore uniforms with well-concealed nonregulation pockets, eventually earned just about as many demerits as anyone in his class. Scholastically, he ranked in the middle brackets-breeding ground of most U.S. generals and admirals...