Word: outdid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...personal attendants of the five senior servants." A childless couple might manage with 65 or so servants, but would require several more if there were children. The nobles, to the extent of their means, aped the King's style of living, and the bourgeois aped and sometimes outdid the nobles...
...music. His left hand, which he sometimes used to hold the podium rail, stiffly waved, patted and sliced the air while the world's most expressive baton all but drew pictures of the sounds he wanted. The orchestra played its heart out, and the soloists and chorus outdid themselves, actually made the old war horse sound like a Class One opera...
Jack Brophy, at three on the Harvard ladder, out stroked Fred Moore to win by the score of 2-1. Captain Dave Hedberg outdid his Amherst partner, 4-2. Jim Jones for the Crimson, playing in six position, turned in top-notch golf, defeating Mack Purdy of the Lord Jeffs, 2-up. Seven man Doub Boyd defeated Dick Williams...
...December the Reds boasted over their loudspeakers that they would be in Seoul by Christmas-but made no effort to get there. For New Year's Eve, they invited the Eighth Army boys to come on over and enjoy a big celebration. Next day they outdid themselves by threatening a "general offensive" for Sunday, Jan. 4. When Sunday rolled around, there was no attack, major or minor. Most sectors were, in fact, unusually quiet...
...took the Bolsheviks ten years to proclaim their first five-year plan. Last week the eager pupil outdid the master: only three years after the Communist conquest of China, Peking proclaimed a five-year plan. Said Premier Chou Enlai: "With the national territory entirely liberated, with the exception of [Formosa], with bandits now liquidated, and with agrarian reform nearly completed . . . the time has come...