Word: outdid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plan to have two years from now. And Mobilizer Charles Wilson was going around announcing that Stalin would be "a dead duck"-if he attacked the U.S. any time after Jan. 1, 1953. In its unintentional invitations for Russia to attack while the coast was still fairly clear, it outdid Louis Johnson's famed fatuous boast: "If Joe Stalin starts something at 4 o'clock in the morning . . . America will...
...Third Force. Last week the New Statesman outdid itself with an article by a timeworn Socialist, G. D. H. Cole, who keeps saying he is not a Communist fellow traveler. Cole explained his view of Far Eastern events: "I looked on the war in Korea as essentially a civil and not an international war ... I wanted the North to win. The Government of South Korea appeared to me to be a hopelessly reactionary puppet affair...
...honored tradition. A visiting Frenchman once called Glasgow's men "the greatest bunch of savages in Europe," and Glaswegians took it as a compliment. Last week, stimulated by both the university's 500th anniversary and Scotland's hullabaloo over the Stone of Destiny, the Glasgow savages outdid themselves...
...City appropriates money to each section every year. Last year Harvard Square applied for its funds too late and consequently, Central Square outdid its rival...
More serious were Rhee's troubles with the National Assembly. When the Assembly refused to appropriate funds for some of Rhee's government projects, the President lambasted them with a vigor that outdid Truman's gibes at the 80th Congress. Then Rhee unconstitutionally appropriated the funds by executive order. "Why should there be anything between a President and his people," he trumpeted. Occasionally during a conference with rebellious assemblymen, rising anger would drive Rhee out of the presidential mansion to a handy woodpile. Only after he had chopped the woodpile down to size would Rhee come back...