Word: outdo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...since fallen off to 98,311, while the Eagle has built itself up to an 88,455 average. But the real result of the vicious war between the two papers is that both have settled to the bottom of journalism's barrel. Trying to outdo each other in sensationalism, they reach desperately for banner headlines, inflate in significant news, and spend most of their time shrieking at each other...
...reason for leaving the administration program intact, Herter said, is the five-year-old campaign by the Soviet Union and its Chinese Communist allies to outdo the United States in helping underdeveloped countries...
...outdo his previous exploits as a canny hooker of the skittery bonefish (the Miami Chamber of Commerce once cited him for landing an unusually healthy 13-pounder), ex-President Herbert Hoover, 84, relaxed aboard a yacht after his arrival in Florida with gee-whiz approval of his first jet ride: "It's a true revolution in air travel. It's going to make a great change in the American scene...
Next week the U.S. will try to send a rocket around the moon. At the same time or soon after, the Russians may be tempted to outdo the U.S. by hitting the moon with a big rocket. Last week scientists of the International Council of Scientific Unions met in Washington to plead with both to make haste with due care...
...Urbino Bible (see color pages) was meant to outdo in magnificence any previous manuscript. To comply with the duke's wishes, a noted Florentine bookseller commissioned one Ugo Comilli to copy the text on milk-white vellum of calf or sheepskin ; three artists whose names have been lost illuminated key pages. The finished product passed into the safekeeping of the Vatican Library in the mid-17th century, was last displayed in 1950 on the 500th anniversary of the founding of the Vatican Library, and is currently kept in a massive oak cabinet in the Vatican's special storage...