Word: surpass
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Saturday the company danced its version of Swan Lake, which may surpass the Bolshoi's. One of the longest and most poignant classical ballets, inherited almost unaltered from Petipa and the nineteenth century Imperial Russian ballet, it provides the British company the ideal opportunity to show off its greatest strength -- the corps de ballet...
...perils and to divide the glory of your white countrymen. I expected much from you; for I was not uninformed of those qualities which must render you so formidable. I knew you could endure hunger and thirst; I knew that you loved the land of your nativity. But you surpass my hopes. Soldiers...
...Maugham was exaggerating, he at least had a point. Isherwood writes so well that his recent brief, cameolike novels, Down There on a Visit, A Single Man and now A Meeting by the River, surpass most of the encyclopedic psychodramas produced by men laboring under weightier careers...
...conference, talk will turn from what present contraceptives are achieving to new methods still in the experimental stage, which it is hoped will eventually surpass the pill in simplicity and effectiveness. Among them...
...when VW reintroduced its mini-priced model at $1,121, christened by President Heinz Nordhoff, "the Economic Crisis Beetle." And springtime is not expected to bring relief. Germans, after seeing their economy crumble thrice in two generations, have nervously watched tax, interest and insurance rates rise, and unemployment surpass job openings...