Word: outdo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ruling quarters" and the "savage, man-hating ethics of Allen Dulles & Co., placing the dollar, this yellow devil, higher than human life." By way of defense, Powers' court-appointed attorney. Mikhail Grinev, who makes a good living losing cases he is expected to. tried to outdo the prosecution in attacking the U.S. Powers, he said, "should be joined in the dock by his masters, who attend this trial invisibly." Grinev in friendly fashion had told Powers' parents that "social factors are very important with our judiciary" and in his argument he stressed the family's hardscrabble hill...
...film is still too long by half. What seems like an hour at the outset is devoted to establishing the fact that the hero's parents are rich but plenty neurotic. It is a poor parlor psychologist who cannot deduce from this that Alfred, in an effort to outdo his father, will marry money (Joanne Woodward), win a position in a banking firm by saving its owner's grandson from drowning, devote himself single-mindedly to his career while his wife buckets around with the Long Island mental-cruelty set, and finally be saved from dissolution...
...fair share" of defense contracts. To make use of the old F.D.R. magic, he sent Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. on tour to persuade West Virginians that Jack Kennedy is an authentic New Dealer at heart. But even with F.D.R. Jr.'s help, Jack Kennedy can hardly outdo Hubert Humphrey as a convincing promiser of New Deal benefits. Even when Kennedy and Humphrey were saying much the same things, Humphrey, by some chemistry of intonation and rhetoric, sounded much more like a genuine damn-the-deficits liberal...
Nationalities often have their own favorite sights. Britons frequently want colonial Williamsburg included in their tours, and try to track down tidewater plantations that once belonged to ancestors. Most Italian tourists head first for Niagara Falls, which outdo the fountains of Tivoli in splash. One of the favorite U.S. cities for overseas visitors is Chicago. Chicagoans like to think that their industry and brisk way of life are the attraction, but the visitors are actually drawn by a romantic conviction that Chicago is the heart of U.S. gangsterism...
Threatening to outdo all the older forms of cheating-is the dishonest television commercial. Most admen are well aware of deceptions such...