Word: copycatted
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...children, television addicts, and those who relish cinema cliches. The large cliche collection here assembled includes the Reincarnated Hero, the Perilous Quest, the Lost City and the ravishingly beautiful woman who is really 2,000 years old. But She is no copycat; Britain's H. Rider Haggard wrote it in 1886,* 51 years before Ronald Colman ever heard of Shangri...
...president moved slowly at first, was accused of copycat management because he adopted many innovations of the government-owned Canadian National. But Crump steadily picked up momentum, has become a hard man to brake. He has entirely dieselized the road, shorn off many of its unprofitable branch lines and short-haul passenger trains, aggressively adopted piggybacking and bought the world's largest railroad-owned computer to direct freight and handle accounting. Result: in 1963's expanding economy, after a monotonous downgrade run, C.P.R.'s earnings rose 24% to $40.1 million, the highest since 1957. Canadian Pacific Airlines...
...copycat ashamed to be found out? Not a bit. The American went right on pinching the Republic's box scores, even enlivening them with unrepentant asides to Frank Gianelli, stuffed in just above the pitchers' names: (STILL
Frank Gianelli, sports editor of Phoenix's biggest daily, the morning Arizona Republic (circ. 148,645), loves his job but can't stand copycats. There was a copycat in town too: Phoenix's youngest daily, the seven-month-old Evening American (26,000). Gianelli noticed that whenever the Republic printed the box score of a game between big-league baseball teams now spring-training in sunny Arizona, so did the American-same box score, same head, same type, same everything...
...Russians are great "copycat" people and feel that such methods will overcome their shortcomings. Your cover story [Feb. 21] points out so well that Russia is not "No. 2" in the world but a "second-class" nation. We are so far ahead of them that they'll never catch up under their system of government...