Word: outdid
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...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...
...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...
...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...
...aloofness Tricia commands a ready reservoir of warmth and charm when she chooses: many apolitical viewers thought her televised tour of the White House last May outdid Jackie Kennedy's celebrated 1962 performance. But, as one friend explains, "Tricia is a private person living her private life the way she wants." Her romance with Cox remained secret for a long time because she always flies by military jet. So they were able to spend nearly every weekend together in assorted family homes and those of friends-un-tracked. Between weekends, Eddie telephoned every day, "sometimes twice, three times...
...some ways, many state and local governments outdid Congress. Though Maine and Vermont yearn for new industry and jobs, both states chose to risk scaring away developers by enacting new laws that, if enforced, firmly protect their largely unspoiled natural resources. Buffalo, N.Y., started to phase out the sale of leaded gasolines. Akron and New York's Suffolk County spotted a way to combat both the money shortage and water pollution. Instead of building costly new sewerage and treatment plants, they banned the sale of detergents containing phosphates, prime source of water contamination...