Word: gamesmanship
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Under such pressure-packed working conditions, a few pros moodily suspect their fellows of improving their lies after marking their balls on the greens. But there is little of that sort of thing, and little of the kind of gamesmanship practiced in the 1920s by the great Walter Hagen, who used to deflate a field of opponents by grandly inquiring, "Well, who's going to be second?" Among the last of the sly oldtimers is E. J. ("Dutch") Harrison, 50. With a younger player watching, Harrison will occasionally choose the wrong iron for a shot, choke upon the grip, curb...
OXFORD, June 8--Gamesmanship and Oneupmanship were in widespread use yesterday as the Harvard-Yale track team completed its last hard workout before the meet Wednesday evening with Oxford and Cambridge in London's White City Stadium. Kevin Gilligan, Oxford's excellent distance runner did his best to undermine American morale yesterday by taking his workout in the Iffley Road running ground at the same time as the U.S. team was practicing. Gilligan began running along with two Yale performers, miler Jim Wade and two-miler John Morrison, planning to do a half-mile in two laps, run through another...
...treatises on Lifemanship and Gamesmanship (TIME, Sept. 6, 1948), Potter developed his brilliant theories about how to be always one up on everyone through such ploys as the Canterbury Block* and Cogg-Willoughby's Anti-Suntan Gambit.† Potter's latest does not reach these heights, but there is highly useful advice on how to make cribside visitors feel like germ carriers, how to write an autobiography though nothing has ever happened in one's life, and how to devastate an author in a book review ("If you don't know what...
...Plastic politician," said London's Observer; "Organization man," said the News Chronicle; "Very spirit of togetherness," sneered the London Daily Mirror; "Mechanical smile," said the Daily Herald; "Superb political gamesmanship," said the Manchester Guardian. In one of the odd situations of modern diplomacy, Nixon was personally on trial and double-dared to make a misstep...
Unhealthy Gamesmanship. Though generally impressed by the great spurts the Russians are making in some areas, Western experts have strong reservations about the Soviet scientific setup as a whole. The centralized administration has advantages, but also produces an unhealthy sort of gamesmanship among scientists. To make sure that they fulfill the "projects for the coming year" that they must submit to the academy, some institute directors have resorted to the ruse of submitting as their "plan" what has already been accomplished the previous year...