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But the British Sunday tabloids excelled themselves by managing to demean even a sleazy sex scandal with revolting front-page headlines of which perhaps the worst was in the Sunday People --"I'll Give You My Baby Gravy."
The LAT points out that the former Soviet Union excelled in this sort of high-tech bugging, and gives a nice history of the known Soviet operations of this sort undertaken against U.S. facilities.
As superb craftsmen they excelled in the production of ceramics and tooled leather, as well as delicate silverware.
It used to be said of the former Soviet Union that while it excelled in such complicated endeavours as space exploration, the smallest things would fox it--the tap would leak and the flush would not work.
Sculptors excelled in portraying lifelike human, animal, and religious figures.