Word: outsmarting
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Last week the play suffered a slight setback when Monte Carlo unceremoniously closed the casino doors to the delegation from Down Under. Still, the same Las Vegas operators who would not believe that the two-armed Aussies could outsmart one-armed bandits stood by expectantly for the hordes of tyros sure to buy the book and flock to Las Vegas to get rich quick. A few may, but as Clampett warns, bandit-beating takes skill as well as quarters...
...Pierre Laval was not only "the shrewdest, most forceful personality in Vichy," but an intensely patriotic Frenchman whose tragic flaw was not :hat he sympathized with Hitler but that ie had "astonishing ignorance about the Germans and supreme confidence in his ability to outsmart them...
...available. The fishermen replied that their squid catch was awful. Why? Well, squid were just too smart to be caught in wholesale numbers. Lusardi squatted in the sand, and the fishermen gathered round while he sketched diagrams of a net-and-jar technique that European fishermen use to outsmart squid. It worked in Venezuela-and Phil Lusardi is king of the beach...
...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...