Word: outdo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...official favor. Above all, as a Central Committee directive made plain, the new theme was unity, specifically a "threeway alliance" among the army, the Red Guards and the party cadres. In one Kweichow cotton mill, reported the New China News Agency last week, 17 Maoist organizations had vied to outdo each other; no longer could China tolerate such extreme factionalism...
...nationalist demands and announced that they would grant independence in 1968 to a South Arabian federation of Aden and 16 neighboring sheikdoms. The concession only heated up the long-smoldering terrorism. From the fanatical National Liberation Front to the moderate South Arabian League, each nationalist faction tried to outdo the other to prove that it hates the British the most and is therefore best qualified to lead the federation. One potent organization, the Front for the Liberation of Occupied South Yemen (FLOSY), is supported by Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, who has 47,000 troops in Yemen...
...whom are now registered Democrats. Indeed in the South, where Democrats have wielded a segregationist whip for decades, Brooke's kind of liberal Republicanism could become a major stimulant to a G.O.P. revival among black men?although, so far, Southern Republicans have all too often tried to outdo the Democrats at the segregationist game...
...ironic that the Righteous Brothers, who got their first big break (so legend goes) by doing a great warm-up act before the Beatles' Los Angeles performance of 1964, brought with them two warm-up groups who strove to outdo each other only in tastelessness. Nino Temple and April Stevens once had a hit with a sappy 1930's revival called "Deep Purple." They spent their time on stage making bad jokes about his virility and displaying her eroticism to the worst advantage. Gaylord and Holliday, a comedy team, did a wonderful parody of Sonny and Cher's "Bang-Bang...
...these demands seemed unreasonable, they were not much more so than the ones made by 22,000 Transport Workers Union machinsts employed by Pan Am and American Airlines. Under pressure to outdo the rival I.A.M. machinists, the T.W.U. has since July deadlocked contract negotiations with obstinate calls for a 30% wage hike and ghoulish threats of what may happen if their demands are not met. Said one T.W.U. official last week...