Word: gamesmanship
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...gentle, proper man who favored bow ties and bowlers and was often taken for a solicitor, McGill said of himself: "I am really rather Victorian in my outlook." And so he was. To Author Stephen Potter (Gamesmanship], McGill's cards brought back "memories of bathing tents and sand in gym shoes and tea at a beach café." To the late George Orwell, they meant something vastly different: a splashy, tintype, but nonetheless authentic expression of ''the Sancho Panza view of life." Like Don Quixote's earthy squire, McGill "punctures your fine attitudes and urges...
...pressured Sukarno for months to exclude Formosa; the Arab bloc did its best to convince Big Bung (brother) that it would be a diplomatic embarrassment for a Moslem nation like Indonesia to play host to Jewish athletes. To keep the two countries out, Sukarno used some gold-medal gamesmanship...
...this internecine gamesmanship, Detroit's basic message is that the two biggest automakers confidently expect two back-to-back years of more than 6,000,000 sales. Only once before, in 1959-60, has that been achieved. Auto stocks went up last week on Wall Street, helping to lift the Dow-Jones industrial average. It closed the week at 613.74, thus finally recovering all the ground lost since the hectic morning of Blue Monday...
Whitla said that exams such as the California Psychological Inventory, which measures non-intellectual characteristics employed in predicting college freshmen grades, merely encourage a kind of "gamesmanship" in which the student tries to outguess the questionner's purpose...
...highly competitive business of toy retailing, where discount prices and special promotions are part of the gamesmanship, New York's F.A.O. Schwarz prospers by clinging to merchandising methods as staid as those of nearby Tiffany's. Century-old Schwarz has never had a sale in its famed Fifth Avenue store, where two spacious floors are packed with 12,000 toys, and prices range from 15? for a whistle to $2,000 for a furnished, four-room puppet theater. The store has refused to hire a costumed Santa at Christmas ever since Founder Frederick Schwarz ruled that...