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Word: outgrows (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...glory and limitation of this package is that musically, it's kid stuff -- the infant sounds of a quartet that shortly would grow up and outgrow its American masters. Juvenilia may be the last refuge of a cultural historian, and mere Beatles browsers will find as few buried treasures here as they would in Hemingway's high school journalism, Quentin Tarantino's first script or Madonna's early nudes. But as a time capsule, the set is invaluable. To eavesdrop on their casual musicianship and their ad-lib ease is to hear a hopeful teen heart, circa 1962, beating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOW BUSINESS: Becoming the Beatles | 12/19/1994 | See Source »

...freshman class, when you come here it's taken for granted that everyone has the same Western high school [background]," Hamoudi says. "I hope its something people outgrow...

Author: By Rebecca M. Wand, | Title: Facing Down Stereotypes | 3/22/1993 | See Source »

Under the pretense of being tough and honest with the American people, Clinton is really just replacing one myth with another. The Republicans tried to make the country believe that the national debt was not a problem, that we would "outgrow" it. Clinton admits that the debt is a problem, but pretends that it is easily solvable--with his plan, of course...

Author: By David L. Bosco, | Title: Deceptively Simple | 3/17/1993 | See Source »

Costas' tightly formatted half time shows often allow sports figures to get away with bitter cant and shameless self-promotion. It's a gig Costas is eager to outgrow. During the Games he is determined to curtail Olympic hype, and he intends to refrain pointedly from calling every upcoming event "exciting" and every confrontation "critical." Even with the tape delays necessitated by time differences, Costas will cover events as they happen, a high-wire act that will show off his considerable ad-lib talents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's Host | 8/3/1992 | See Source »

...Backward times we must outgrow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Required Reading | 12/6/1991 | See Source »

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