Word: outdo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even Walt Disney Productions has a hand in the act: they'll provide us with a spectacular half-time display that should outdo the 4000 pigeons and the "missing-man" formation of Air Force jets that have highlighted half-time spectacles in past years...
...closing days of the campaign, the Arab boycott of companies that do business with Israel has suddenly become a U.S. political issue. Both candidates are trying to outdo each other in denouncing it. Their tug of war has shed little light on how the boycott works, but it is spreading confusion and concern among businessmen...
Jerusalem is relishing the spectacle of both candidates trying to outdo each other in public pledges of support for Israel. Foreign Minister Yigal Allon, after watching the debates on TV in New York, only half jested: "I don't know if Ford or Carter won. All I know is that Israel won." Despite the insistence that it has no preference in the race, the administration of Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin is believed to favor the incumbent. Familiarity is again the reason...
...content to duel Hugh Hefner on the newsstands, Penthouse Publisher Bob Guccione seems determined to outdo the Playboy prince in the real estate department too. Guccione has paid more than $1 million in cash for the 40-room Manhattan mansion that once belonged to Financier Jeremiah Milbank, and he is preparing to spend another $1 million or so to have it "all redone in Italian Renaissance, very classical and simple." Besides a Roman-bath swimming pool and quarters for nine live-in servants, Guccione's digs will also feature accommodations for visiting Penthouse pets, but with some differences from...
...child (herself as a child, or an Emily from another time, or both) living out some fairly loveless incidents from a past that may be real or subconscious. But no past of any sort can look as bleak as Mrs. Lessing's present. Only the future can outdo that...