Word: outdoes
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...fair share" of defense contracts. To make use of the old F.D.R. magic, he sent Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. on tour to persuade West Virginians that Jack Kennedy is an authentic New Dealer at heart. But even with F.D.R. Jr.'s help, Jack Kennedy can hardly outdo Hubert Humphrey as a convincing promiser of New Deal benefits. Even when Kennedy and Humphrey were saying much the same things, Humphrey, by some chemistry of intonation and rhetoric, sounded much more like a genuine damn-the-deficits liberal...
Nationalities often have their own favorite sights. Britons frequently want colonial Williamsburg included in their tours, and try to track down tidewater plantations that once belonged to ancestors. Most Italian tourists head first for Niagara Falls, which outdo the fountains of Tivoli in splash. One of the favorite U.S. cities for overseas visitors is Chicago. Chicagoans like to think that their industry and brisk way of life are the attraction, but the visitors are actually drawn by a romantic conviction that Chicago is the heart of U.S. gangsterism...
Threatening to outdo all the older forms of cheating-is the dishonest television commercial. Most admen are well aware of deceptions such...