Word: outdid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...West mustered its most decadent and bizarre characters for the frivolous extravaganza which was marked by fantastic costumes and coyote yells and attended by transvestities, pimps, working women and the curious press. Hot-pink pasties, g-strings, sequins and nudity adorned the raucous proceedings--but the drag queens reportedly outdid the rest, leading one participant to comment, "Once again it's proven that...
...feeble attempt at sophisticated, hard-edged humor, the local English-language weekly Monday Morning recently ran a fashion spread on the "military" look, showing models with rifles under the headline THE APPROPRIATE LOOK. Last week the magazine outdid itself with two new fashion tips: the "refuse romper," platform shoes "designed to keep pedestrians from submerging in garbage heaps"; and the "dross dress," festooned with refuse so that the wearer can "evade snipers by melting into any garbage heap or, in the unlikely event that no such heap is immediately available, by lying down anywhere and becoming a garbage heap...
...impressed by many of my players who had been steady throughout the season but who really outdid themselves this weekend," Field said...
...Baseman Pete Rose, later voted the Series' most valuable player, "it had to be the greatest World Series game in history." Indeed, aside from Fred Lynn's numbing collision with the centerfield wall after barely missing a long Ken Griffey fly, at least three Red Sox feats outdid Hollywood. There were Pinch Hitter Bernie Carbo's eighth-inning, three-run homer that tied the game; Rightfielder Dwight Evans' game-saving catch of a Joe Morgan drive in the eleventh; and, most Homeric, Catcher Carlton Fisk's game-winning home run in the twelfth...
Williams only outshot the Cliffe by a 12-9 margin, but they outran, out-passed, and generally just outdid the Cliffe stickhandlers until the second half when Maude Wood, Radcliffe's right link, chiseled through the Williams defense to score a one and lonely goal...