Word: outdoing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...better described not as a clock but as a scenario, which we can hope to edit." If we died in old age at the same rate we die between ages 10 and 15, then most of us in the U.S. would live 1,200 years. We would outdo the first Methuselah, whose years were...
...Catapulted to collegiate fame and 10 bucks richer, Lothrop lost the election but gained much, much more. He had broken down the door to wacky, collegiate fads, as kids everywhere anxiously followed suit, striving to outdo one another in speed and volume of goldfish consumption. Straightening sweater vests and smoothing down cowlicks, the bravest of our grandparents' generation rose to the challenge...
...filling someone else's shoes," he says. "I'm not trying to outdo anyone. It's about structuring a department that allows it to respond as quickly as possible to its customers...
...vigilance is finally creeping into the suburbs. A frightening plot against a school was halted earlier this month in Port Huron, Mich., where authorities say a 12-year-old, a 13-year-old and two 14-year-olds, all boys, had been concocting a conspiracy to outdo Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. The Michigan boys planned to take a gun from one of their fathers, use it to hold up a gun store for more weaponry, and then descend on Holland Woods Middle School to rape some of the girls and shoot many classmates. They had drawn up a list...
...from Littleton, there is a growing political momentum to tighten the noose around the Second Amendment, which allows Americans to keep and bear arms. However, take a quick look around pop culture, and you will easily find examples of how violence is considered a creative outlet. Movies try to outdo one another in innovative gore, video games teach kids how to use guns, and the Internet is a wide-open forum. So while we're chipping away at the Second Amendment, why not peel back some layers of the First Amendment, which permits freedom of speech? Aren't we willing...