Word: outdo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...source of hard currency, is raising higher barriers against outsiders. The Russians would like nothing better than to use Yugoslavia's trade troubles with the West as a means of splitting Belgrade completely from Western Europe. But Moscow would have to go a long way before it could outdo the attractions of the Common Market, whose member nations flood Belgrade with a wide variety of products that are missing in Moscow...
...million a year from among the more than 10 million true believers (80% of them female). Nearly 1,000 U.S. newspapers, with a daily circulation of some 40 million, carry astrological columns with such thumbnail profundities as: "Leo (July 22 to August 21) : Avoid investing unwisely or trying to outdo the experts when you have not had sufficient practice or knowledge. Listen intently instead. Stand up under pressure admirably...
Boss of the show is Marcos Behemara, about 34, a longtime Communist who once wrote Cuban television comedy scripts. "Guest stars" on his programs are the hemisphere Castrophiles, who, in the fashion of World War II's Tokyo Rose and Lord Haw Haw, sometimes outdo even the Cuban Communists. Three times a week, Radio Habana turns its antennas directly at Guatemala for a rabble-rousing half-hour broadcast by Jacobo Arbenz, 48, the Red-lining ex-President of Guatemala who was overthrown eight years ago and now hopes to return via Cuba...
India and Pakistan, deadly rivals, were engaged in a benign competition: each was trying to outdo the other in the warmth of its greetings to Visitor Jacqueline Kennedy-and each had obviously decided that the way to her heart was through her fondness for animals. Indeed, Jackie must have thought at times last week that she was visiting an Asian menagerie...
...began to outdo ABC at its own game. Ratings dropped. Sponsors began to look to the other networks. ABC time is still between 35% and 40% unsold for the coming fall season, and most of the buying is over...