Word: outdoing
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...Poon uses the blackball system for elections, monthly dues are $15, and the Big Fun comes at the Thursday night dinners in the Castle, where the food-throwing might match that of the Three Stooges. Candidates seeking election must endure a hellish "Fool's Week," which in tedium can outdo any small college fraternity...
...weasel-like grille barreling down upon him. And with good reason, for it is the emblem of the sleek five-seater produced by the Bayerische Motoren Werke. The BMW can outperform and overtake almost any standard German car on the autobahn. This year it proved that it could outdo its competitors in the market place as well: amidst a general economic slowdown and dwindling car sales in Germany, peppery little BMW is forging steadily ahead...
...trying to outdo himself, Monday night Shure tackled not two but three major works of the piano repertoire. Once again, Beethoven and Schubert figured prominently on the program, the former represented by the venerated Sonata in E, Op. 109, and the latter by another fruit of his frantic but fecund last eleven months, the Sonata in c minor, Op. posthumous...
Countless players emulate and even outdo their heroes in studying shots (mostly putts), pacing terrain, measuring windage, barometric pressure and countless other factors. And all this has not resulted in their scoring better; instead, it has resulted in prolonging the usual four-hour, 18-hole round to something like six hours, to the utter frustration of following players. If something is not done about it, golf, as we oldtimers knew it, will never be the same again...
...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...