Word: one-upmanship
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...hard-pressed Wilson now would have to give up one of the precious pair by installing his own man as Speaker unless he could talk the Tories or the Liberals into supplying a candidate for the job. The Tories are not likely to volunteer readily, for they would like nothing better than to see how adept Wilson is at one-upmanship when the House reassembles in October...
...year stretch in jail. And by shrugging off sex, dryly noting its acceptance as a sort of public utility, Darling succeeds where other entries in the movie sleepstakes fumble. The sharpest asides occur in Capri, where the future principessa and her homosexual photographer-pal compete in a game of one-upmanship involving a dark-eyed waiter...
...plump package of just about everything Americans find detestable in a U-type Englishman. He is expensively accented (Oxford), twice married, with a modest homosexual past, a nonchurchgoing Roman Catholic, but a devout snob and a glutton, a sexman and a Potterish ployman of epic pretensions. His exploits in one-upmanship take the form of a baroque conversational style, impeccable scholarship in cigars, and a collection of snuffboxes with appropriate snuff (antelope horn for the Otterburn mix). He hates progress, Protestants, Negroes, Jews, Americans, today and tomorrow. Such a man, Amis implies, has done very nicely thank-you in England...
...signers were the heads of some of the nation's most successful agencies, and the ad was conceived and written as a bit of sly one-upmanship by Madison Avenue Adman and Bestselling Author David (Confessions of an Advertising Man) Ogilvy...
Bevin's one-upmanship won that round, but the Guatemalans have never given up. Little does it matter to them that Guatemala never once held the swampy, New Hampshire-sized territory east of its border (see map)-or that in 1859 it signed a boundary treaty recognizing British sovereignty. The treaty is invalid, argues Guatemala, because Britain reneged on a promise to build a road across the frontier. The road, says Britain, was supposed to be a joint project. British Hondurans, all 90,000 of them, want no part of annexation by Guatemala; they speak English, are predominantly Negro...