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Word: outdo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ridgepole. Even in those days, playing with her brothers, Grandma made a habit of excelling. "If they'd climb up a tree," she says, "I'd climb higher. They weren't goin' to outdo me. If they'd climb to the eaves of a house, I'd climb to the ridgepole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Presents from Grandma | 12/28/1953 | See Source »

...conquerors they make an unpretty lot. They rape and loot, lash naked women to tanks, destroy works of art, try to outdo their late conquerors. But like all occupiers, they soon find that their lives have been bound up with those of the occupied. Two hussars, Sanders and Saint-Anne, finally surrender unconditionally to a handsome, sensual girl named Rita. Sanders had met her in what was then a conventional way: he raped her. Sanders becomes Author Nimier's prototype of the fundamentally good Frenchman gone wrong. He is cynical, bitter, confused; he is also a great reader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Conquering French | 10/26/1953 | See Source »

...legislators headed home last week, no one was ready to say flatly that William Stratton would outdo Adlai Stevenson's good record as governor. But after six months of Stratton, Billy the Kid had a different meaning in Illinois. It meant a hard-riding, fast-drawing governor who knows how to get what he wants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ILLINOIS: Billy the Kid | 7/13/1953 | See Source »

...butter, when it was available, cost ten hours' wages) and hope even leaner. The regime coerced him into volunteer, unpaid "peace shifts." He had to march in parades to demand more hours' work of himself for no more pay. Plant managers and party planners raced to outdo each other with new gimmicks or old variations on the Soviet Stakhanovite system: P. Bykov's "rapid-lathe-operators' movement," J. Savitch's "rapid-grinders' movement," P. Duvanov's "movement for speeded-up baking of tiles," the "method of three" for cooperative laying of bricks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: The Coffinmaker | 7/13/1953 | See Source »

What makes Toko-ri different as a war novel is its central theme of responsibility, something other U.S. writers have bypassed in an effort to outdo each other in gaminess, self-pity, resentment and use of four-letter words. Author Michener, a Quaker who overcame his religious scruples to enlist in the Navy in World War II, knows his subject. He is not a great novelist, and Toko-ri will not go down as a great novel. But it is an uncompromising story of fear, truth and death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sacrifices of the Few | 7/13/1953 | See Source »

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