Word: surpassing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...equivalents of today's dropout terrorists, likewise thrown up and thrown out by social systems they find unacceptable." Corruption infected a swollen bureaucracy and licentiousness became the ordure of the day. "We are arrived at the zenith of vice," boomed Juvenal, "and posterity will never be able to surpass us." Perhaps not, but it seems to be making a vigorous effort. The massage salons of American towns are versions of Petronian ritual; Penthouse and Hustler proliferate on New York newsstands; Pompeii had its pornography memorialized in frescoes...
...million the pros at the American Broadcasting Co. bought the rights to tube the ultimate marathon of sport into America's homes and taverns. What ABC got in return was almost 50% of each night's television audience and another solid first down in its march to surpass CBS and NBC. And deservedly: on the whole, viewers saw technical professionalism of the highest caliber. Roone Arledge, president of ABC Sports and the Toscanini of coordination circuits and interrupted feed-back systems, personally directed nearly every picture and a good many of the words that were seen and heard...
...vast coal reserves with both intelligence and innovation, and begin shifting our sights to the one sure source that will carry us through the next decades-nuclear energy." Those views are worth serious attention, but Reagan goes on to say that if all that is done, the U.S. "could surpass the Middle East as the world's chief exporter of energy." Given the fact that proven oil reserves in Saudi Arabia alone are 4.5 times those in the U.S., that statement is a flight of pure fancy...
...regrets of the political parrying that surrounds the Olympics is that it threatens to overwhelm the simpler drama of athletes straining to find-and then surpass-their physical limitations. Even if the athlete cannot shave a second off his mortality, he can at least add a moment of timeless honor to the human record...
...more than two centuries, the U.S. has been able to lay the foundations of astonishing technical achievements and immense material progress, the like of which no society or nation has been able to equal or surpass. In this relatively short period, America has succeeded in transforming a huge continent, blessed with almost unlimited natural resources, from the simplest beginnings into the wealthiest and most powerful country the world has seen...