Word: outdid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brazil's ever emotional and sometimes erratic President Jânio Quadros outdid himself last week. "I have been beaten by forces against me, and so I leave the government," he cried. He resigned the presidency, and flew off back to his native Sao Paulo. He left the president of the Chamber of Deputies, a little-known politician named Pascoal Ranieri Mazzilli, to preside as caretaker in his stead...
...further respect of writing reporters-who deplore most TV newsmen-with his candid and unmincing coverage, his use of the TV camera to help find sense rather than sensationalism. Called home to help on election night last November, Chancellor was given the Midwest desk, outdid Huntley and Brinkley in sagacity, and was one of the few commentators who kept saying all night long that the result would be close...
...cast almost outdid their material (or, to use his own idiom, Segal had fine actors on base when he hit this Homer). At any rate, they were superb...
...hastily sculpted plaster bust of Yuri. Moscow planned a 287-ft. commemorative obelisk. Yuri's voice in space on an LP record with commentary in six languages was being readied for world sale. Yuri's image blossomed on everything from postcards to pottery. The grateful Soviet government outdid itself: it bestowed on the first spaceman and his household of six a new, four-room apartment...
Short of granting interviews with Eichmann, the Israeli government outdid itself to accommodate the visitors. Censorship was lifted on all trial copy. In and around the courtroom building gleamed $350,000 worth of new transmission facilities, including banks of teletypes staffed by Jerusalem housewives hastily recruited and trained. Each guest was equipped with a headset radio on which he could follow the trial in four languages-French, English, German, Hebrew. If a reporter missed anything, he could refer to a daily mimeographed record of the court proceedings-also in four languages, plus a summary in Yiddish. Even the trial...