Word: outsmart
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...know what to expect from white people and, as an unfortunate corollary, he has no idea of how to behave if he is to avoid the white man's whip. He is perhaps the only Negro in the South who has not learned the consummately important lesson: how to outsmart the whites...
Whites and nonwhites not only have separate park benches, public toilets, post office windows, but in many buildings, separate elevators. Africans often outsmart white starters by getting on or off white elevators on the second floor, where the starters cannot catch them. Escalators, however, are integrated; the only rule, and a humane one at that, requires passengers to wear shoes-in the past, too many barefoot blacks have lost their toes...
Published for Pubs. First issued in Brit ain in 1955 by Guinness stout to settle bar bets, the book of mosts quickly became a must for pubs, libraries, schools, and school kids trying to outsmart their teachers. It now rates as Britain's bestselling reference book. Four British editions and one in the U.S. have sold 540,000 copies; soon to appear are French and German editions...
...Honeymoon Machine. An electronic computer helps three young people outsmart the Venice casino in a film that clicks cheerfully to a silly conclusion...
...which might also be titled Father Knows Nothing, presents the comic with the excavated face as a bumbler named Potter who is trapped in the customary format: Harassed Man Beaten Down by Wife, Three Daughters, Mother-in-Law. In the opening episode, Ewell could find no better way to outsmart his spendthrift women than closing his bank account and ruining his own credit. For those who may have tuned out early, the women were all set to start spending again...