Word: outdo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...traditional elements that to some extent still typify the college experience--throwing off the values of one's parents and defining one's own, trying to outdo one another in radical political jargon, experimental binges of drugs, sex and sleep--assumed and added dimension for women in the early 1970s. "Five years earlier," Schumer writes, "men had been required to wear jackets and ties in the dining halls, and women weren't allowed in the undergraduate library in Harvard Yard. Now mattresses were pushed together on the floors and even the toilets were co-ed....What an anachronism the Radcliffe...
...Michigan State is going to have 100 pieces, so we'll have to actually outdo them in terms of cheers," says Mark Kaufman. "In terms of wit, it will be no problem...
...there's another band, it's a lot of fun because we feed off each other," says Jeff Wolk. Because the Bruin band wasn't concerned with being funny, the game wasn't as interesting. "They just yelled obscenities back instead of trying to outdo us. We'd come up with a good cheer and they'd just drown it out with their stupid catcalls," Wolk says...
...abuse of illegal drugs has certainly become the Issue of the Year, except that the main issue involved seems to be how far politicians scramble to outdo one another in leading the crusade. The Administration last week came up with a plan to require more than 1 million federal employees who deal with sensitive information (everyone from defense-contract employees to diplomats) to submit urine samples for drug testing...
...would have taken luck--and maybe an appearance by iceman Scott Fusco in drag--to outdo the powerful Wildcats...