Word: outdo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since few firms have unique products, they often try to outdo each other in boastful bragging about what they do have. Helena Rubinstein, who styles herself the "First Lady of Beauty Science," claims that her Tree of Life cream contains extract of human placenta "from nature's storehouse of nutrients for the unborn baby." To supply juice of water lilies for some of her other products, she keeps convents of nuns in London and Paris busy growing lilies. A year ago Lilly Dacheé introduced a finishing powder "which actually contains pulverized pearls," claimed that it made the skin...
Pity the poor taxpayer. He is caught between the Democrats, the Republicans and local politicians in their frantic political maneuvering to outdo each other in using his money to spend him out of the recession...
...singled out Scandinavian Airlines, Swissair, Air France and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, which have been trying for years to outdo each other with fancy extras that sell more tickets, as chief purveyors of smorgasbord-type sandwiches on their flights. Samples (from the SAS menu): five slices of ox tongue, a lettuce heart, asparagus and sliced carrots-on a slice of bread; five slices of liver pate, fried crisp bacon, mushrooms and sliced tomato-on a slice of bread. Seconds are available for the asking, and SAS, for one, passes around a tray from which a passenger may take as much...
...broad sense there was no saner warning to U.S. policymakers at week's end than Dulles' own press conference advice: "If we try to outdo ourselves in the spectacular, then we are leading the world in a very dangerous way indeed." To this Vice President Richard Nixon added, in an interview filmed in Washington and televised in London: "History shows that the road to war is paved with conferences that failed...
...Disposition Service," the Jewish organization within the camp that really runs the grisly show for the Germans in charge. His boss is Siegfried Israel Cohn, a German Jew with years in concentration camps behind him, whose sense of self-preservation is so strong that he is prepared to outdo his masters in brutality. Carefully he explains to his new young "adjutant" that though all the Jews will reach Auschwitz in the end, the disposition crew will be the last to go. Each week a train leaves with its quota of victims. To postpone their fate a week, people are willing...