Word: bested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...coup d'etat that unseated Romero as President last week was greeted with unabashed enthusiasm in Washington. "It's the best piece of news we've had in this office for a long time," said a State Department official. Well aware that Romero was out of touch with El Salvador's realities, U.S. policymakers have been hoping for some kind of "evolutionary change" that would avoid the horrendous bloodshed of Nicaragua's civil war. Whether El Salvador's new rulers will be able to maintain peace in their factionalized little country, however, is doubtful...
...Stoppard's play Night and Day, a woman approached him and said plaintively, "Please, don't let interest rates stay high for too long." Replied the Federal Reserve chairman, as he removed the cellophane from his 20? Antonio y Cleopatra Grenadier cigar: "We're trying our best...
Paradoxically, America's lack of longstanding intellectual traditions-in fact, its strain of anti-intellectualism-may also have helped the cause of science. The best minds have not been overburdened with required studies that are remote from their interests. Sir George Porter, a British chemist who won a Nobel in 1967, recalls that he had to put up a stiff fight to be allowed to study science instead of Latin or Greek at his grammar school in England. "Very few Americans speak ancient languages," he says.-"But for 150 years there has been a tradition in America of appreciation...
...West Germany and France, what is known as the "Herr Professor" syndrome often prevails. Government grants tend to go to the professor who heads the department; he then distributes the money as he sees fit, even though he may not be in the best position to evaluate the work of a promising newcomer. Nor do teachers and students communicate as easily as they do in the U.S., where there is a give and take between the generations. Says Professor Heinz Maier-Leibnitz, president of the West German Research Society: "In America, you have to be different to be accepted. West...
...year-old brat. He spends too much, drinks too much and wives too much. At the studios, they don't even know his name, except as a joke. He gets older, paunchier and balder, but though few seem to know it, he is still one of the best actors in the business. Then he finds himself in his first Broadway show. It opens, the critics turn handsprings, and that cheeky kid is once more swaggering down the block-Puck in middle...