Word: gamesmanship
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Whittaker and Prather had nothing but praise for Neophyte Kennedy, but in the eternal spirit of internal Kennedy-family gamesmanship Brother Teddy was quick to point out that Bobby "is not the first Kennedy to climb a mountain. I climbed the Matterhorn, which is higher [14,780 ft.], and I didn't need the Royal Canadian Mounted Police." That was all right with Bobby. "I didn't really enjoy any part of it," he admitted frankly, "but I can understand why people like climbing. They are a special breed of men." Henceforth, he added, "I'm going...
CHIPS WITH EVERYTHING, by Arnold Wesker, chides the British lower classes for being docile sheep that raise nary a baa of protest at their lot. The setting is an R.A.F. training camp, and the military gamesmanship is brisk and funny...
...script always calls for the Taverners to win. And so Prince Philip, 42, a Taverner reserve and part-time Gunga Din, donned white waiter's jacket and served the visitors champagne in silver cups. While the Globetrotters reeled, his mates stole one of the baskets. That bit of gamesmanship gave the Taverners a 26-24 victory, and Philip's favorite charity got $22,400 in proceeds from the event...
...team wondered if they were there for tennis or water polo. "We will lose our edge," fretted Coach Pancho Contreras as the first day's matches were postponed. The wonder was that the Mexicans had any edge left at all. In a comedy of errors-or possibly gamesmanship-the Latin Americans spent the better part of a week bumping around India while their hosts acted as if they weren't even there...
...rain-soaked hard courts against India's highly regarded ace, Ramanathan Krishnan, Osuna powdered the baseline with his drives, showed a baffling array of skittering slices; at times, he even employed some gamesmanship of his own, scooting catlike around a backhand to take it on his forehand. Krishnan carried the match to five sets, got a breather when the match was interrupted in the fourth set because of darkness. But that was it. Next day Osuna polished him off, then teamed with No. 2 Mexican Antonio Palafox to win the doubles to lead the jubilant squad...