Word: outdid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TOUCH ME"-BABY'S FATHER) and crime (MOTHER SLAYS BABE IN WOODS TO MAKE WAY FOR LOVER), but about the most important national and international news as well. For example, more in the interest of slam-bang headlines than from political conviction, Britain's popular dailies outdid each other the minute the U.S. made the announcement in March 1954 of the destructive powers of the hydrogen bomb. HELL BOMB, HORROR BOMB, and other black-scare headlines filled every Page One, along with such articles as "The H-Bomb...
...More startling than the excellent exposition of the meat of the Oppenheimer case in TIME, June 28, was the box preceding it under the title "The Handout." TIME really outdid itself in this expression of journalistic candor, for the professional intellectuals in journalism have loudly boasted for years about reporting in the "public interest." Now we see an enormous admission that some highly placed typescribblers permitted themselves to accept handouts from a prejudiced side of a highly important public controversy and thus to distort the substance of a highly important decision. And lazy editors followed the lines handed...
Exultant left-wingers outdid themselves in singing praises of China's new bosses. The Rt. Hon. J. Harold Wilson, M.P. and former Socialist president of the Board of Trade, had a pleasant chat at Geneva with Chinese Premier Chou Enlai, reported back: "As we said goodbye, and he stood waving at the door of his villa . . . I felt we had been meeting one of the world's leading statesmen . . . who knows what he wants for his country. A man. in fact, we can deal with...
...unforgettable presence, melancholy and mysterious as a peasant Mona Lisa. Corot started off strong. He was blessed with deep feeling for nature, instinctive taste and a large allowance from his family. At 29 he went to Italy and immediately started painting the best landscapes of his career. He outdid even his great French predecessors in Rome-Poussin and Claude Lorrain-by redoing their favorite scenes in a less theatrical manner...
...resentment against Israel. When Israel decided last month to lift military rule and permit Nazareth to choose its own city council, the town's Communist leaders got to work among the city's Moslems and Christian Arabs. The Communists had the most money to spend, and outdid all others in the stridency of their attack on the Jews...