Word: outfoxes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dealing privately with other nations. Actually, the opposite conclusion could be drawn from the fact that the report-the work of more than 30 people-did not come to even semipublic attention for years. At any rate, the mission to Peking proved that the U.S. Government can almost always outfox the world, and especially the press, when it so chooses. Clearly, secrecy is still eminently possible, and so, it would appear, is the skillful practice of U.S. diplomacy...
...mind. A young gallant wrecks the plan. Horace (David Dukes) catches sight of Agnes, falls in love with her, trysts with her and eventually wins her to wife. The cream of the jest is that he enlists Arnolphe as a coconspirator, and that wariest of foxes helps to outfox himself...