Word: outdo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manolete was not to be the only star. Mexico's own Silverio Perez took his bull with almost equal skill, got as great an ovation. Determined to outdo Silverio, the visitor from Spain returned to the ring. When Manolete tried a lance (pass with the cape), the bull evaded the cape, drove a horn deep into the Spaniard's left thigh...
...daring dean of modern architects announced last week that he had completed plans, and secured backing (a million dollars), for the long-contemplated Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Non-Objective Painting.* It sounded like a jumping-off-place for Buck Rogers, the man from the 25th Century. "It will outdo in bizarre appearance any other building in the world," was the verdict of one appraising eye. Fiery old (76) Frank Lloyd Wright, the man who designed it, proudly says that it will be the first building ever conceived in the form of a true logarithmic spiral (descending spiral, widest...
...along famously together on this point. I should like to recall one other sentence from that speech: we shall not succeed in our desperately important postwar peace plans by "a snarling process of international recrimination in which every United Nation's capital tries to outdo the other in bitter backtalk about the infirmities of each." I earnestly suggest a moratorium by all concerned until we can sit down together in mutual good faith and try to discover "what's what." A. H. VANDENBERG United States Senate Washington...
...tall, "fit as a panther") knew all about Cousin Hugo's guilty worry. But Dev was too much of a gentleman to raise the question, and Hugo believed in letting sleeping dogs lie. So the cousins never spoke. But they spent all their time trying to outdo one another on horseback...
Worse yet, the man-eater in Catherine was not enough for Actress West; she insisted on encompassing the Empress as well, and far from spoofing the imperial manner, tried to outdo it. When a courtier reminded her that "They also serve who only stand and wait," she replied "Quoting Milton's 'prome', I presume!" She had sponged up enough history to soak her play with wars, uprisings and palace intrigues. But the excitement was conveyed in dialogue that had the specific gravity of lead, and the results, when not merely sedative, were often crushing...