Word: gamesman
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...Ford's minor claim on a presidential legacy came about in part because the skilled House gamesman was not prepared to manage expectations once he was elevated into the presidency. Observers assumed that he would tack hard to the side of openness and sunlight to escape Nixon's shadow. But he wound up relying on a coterie of insiders - Nixon's own shadows - from Henry Kissinger to the young Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, who had no less zeal for the imperial presidency than their predecessors under Nixon...
...marathon began in Moscow in September 1984, when the athletic, aggressive Kasparov, then 21, challenged the meticulous end-gamesman Karpov, then 33, world champion for the nine previous years and cynosure of the Soviet chess establishment. The match was played under revised rules, scoring only for victories, not draws. Five months and a record 48 games later, with Karpov leading 5-3 but faltering, the head of the World Chess Federation called off the contest, claiming that both antagonists were exhausted. Kasparov, having won the previous two games and the momentum, charged that he had been robbed. Seven months later...