Word: outdrew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dramatic opening of mysterious jungle drums. The kids loved them. He also bought old adventure films, such as Robin Hood and Tom Sawyer. Renaming them Family Classics, he dared to run them on Friday nights, usually the province of action and comedy. He had another smash, and Family Classics outdrew even Bob Hope. WON is still running the series...
...tuned to the Republicans on the first night of the convention, though this was a slight gain over the Democrats' 26%. Is gavel to gavel (even with all the interspersed commercials) worth it for NBC and its advertised "team of 550"? As competitive sports go, the Olympics far outdrew the conventions. Of course, networks have other motives. Conventions are their most conspicuous "public service"; they are also television's own Olympics, with their news departments' prestige at stake. Besides, there is the adrenaline of it: a fatiguing 12-hour day watching over his loyal floormen from...
Adlai E. Stevenson III, 43, has little of his late father's eloquence, but has proved every bit as successful a vote getter in Illinois. In his first campaign in 1964, he outdrew all 235 other candidates for the state legislature, two years later led the Democratic ticket again when he ran for state treasurer. Since his election to the Senate in 1970 to complete Everett Dirksen's term, Stevenson has been one of the Nixon Administration's sharpest critics. Scholarly and hardworking, he called for funds to develop alternative energy sources as far back...
...Oriole Superstar Frank Robinson, who is now with the California Angels, the return to Baltimore's Memorial Stadium for the first time in two years was something of a homecoming. Less than two miles away, however, Johns Hopkins University was host to Navy in another homecoming game that outdrew the Orioles at the gate- 8,200 fans to 7,177. Robby and the Orioles need not have felt slighted. The big campus contest was nothing so mundane as baseball. It was America's oldest organized sport: lacrosse...
Hoffmann said an important aspect of the election is whether the Socialists outdrew the Communists. The two parties have joined forces in an attempt to defeat the Gaullists. He said, "If the Socialists are ahead, the chances of the leftists to attract the middle people are better...