Word: surpassing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nixon has said that there is no chance that the Soviet economy will surpass that of the U.S. during this century. Small as the chance may be, it is obviously inaccurate to say that there is "no chance." The statement may have been intended merely as a placebo, regardless of truth, for the American public and thus as an aid to Mr. Nixon's political aspirations, or it may accurately represent his belief. In either case Mr. Nixon's election would be unwise, as the denial of such a threat can only serve to increase its magnitude...
...twin deities were Bergson (with whom he studied) and Nietzsche. From Bergson he borrowed the idea of an ever upward-rushing elan vital or life force; from Nietzsche he took the belief that "man is a bridge and not an end," and that his task is to surpass himself. Saviors of God is couched in the form and style of Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra-ecstatic, apocalyptic, hortatory, an exclamation-marked salute to man's destiny...
Handsome Stu Symington can give Jack Kennedy a run for the cameras, and-a millionaire himself-he also has the money to wage an all-out campaign. His family can match the Kennedys in looks if not in numbers, and probably surpass them as entertainers (Wife Eve was once a $1,000-a-week cafe-society chanteuse. Son Jim is a semiprofessional guitarist and folk singer, and Daughter-in-Law Sylvia an accomplished pianist...
...roles. He knew no German or French, nor did he sing Mozart in any language; he was largely limited to the big Italian works. But within that grateful range he created a whole gallery of careful portrayals infused with a passion and authority no baritone of his time could surpass...
...week's end the campaign's sponsors tallied more than 75,000 who had taken the vaccine. They hoped to run the total close to the half-million mark before April, which would make this the biggest test of any live vaccine in U.S. medical history, and surpass the figure of 440,000 children covered by the 1954 trials of Salk vaccine...