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Word: outdid (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Says Earle: "We had expected the stress group to do better, but after about a year it was reasonably apparent that we were wrong. The non-stressed outdid the stressed in everything. Their job knowledge was better, they were better marksmen, more adaptable, more responsible, got along better with other officers and their superiors and felt the public placed a higher value on their work. They even wore their uniforms better." A second group of 100 rookies was later similarly divided and trained, with the same results...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: How to Train Cops | 7/31/1972 | See Source »

Rounding out the ladder is sophomore Glen Whitman. Although Whitman lost to Gwathmas in a challenge Wednesday, the top freshman prospect outdid Gordon. Quasha, and Wiegand, and everyone else to win the Montreal "B" tournament last weekend...

Author: By Robert W. Gerlach, | Title: Strong Squash Team Faces Cadets; Crimson Favored in Season's Start | 12/4/1971 | See Source »

...Only since a new law was passed in 1967 have the 10,000 Baptists and other non-Catholics been able to hold public meetings. But the specially warm welcome the Baptists received was also probably the result of recently strained relations between the government and the Catholic Church, which outdid each other in greeting the visitors. Both the mayor and the acting bishop of Madrid sent emissaries to the Baptists' opening meeting in the Melia Castilla Hotel. In return, the prelate was given a Bible and the mayor a cowboy hat, L.B.J.-style...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Texans' Crusade | 11/8/1971 | See Source »

...second time in two months, President Richard Nixon reversed his own and his party's policies with a swiftness and style that is virtually unmatched in modern American politics. What he did in foreign policy with his approach to Peking he outdid in domestic affairs last week. Casting aside "the game plan" he has so long and implacably pursued, the President announced "the most comprehensive New Economic Policy to be undertaken by this nation in four decades." The claim was merited. A show of firm leadership was clearly needed in order to get the U.S. industrial machine running smoothly once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: Nixon's Grand Design for Recovery | 8/30/1971 | See Source »

...exhibits have not gone unnoticed at previous Paris shows. A prime attraction of the 1965 exhibition was the AN-22 turboprop, the world's biggest aircraft at the time. In 1967, the gigantic display of Russian spacecraft dwarfed even the U.S. space exhibit. But this year the Soviets outdid themselves with the most dazzling collection of commercial planes they have ever brought to Paris. Among their showstoppers on the tarmac at Le Bourget Airport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Red Stars at Le Bourget | 6/7/1971 | See Source »

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