Word: outsmarting
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...added that a "good coach must be a mastermind of football and be able not only to outguess and outsmart his opponents, but above all, he must qualify as the very best type of instructor, able to impart his knowledge of all phases of the game to the eager beavers who make up his squad...
...such big meets as Ascot, Epsom and Goodwood. While other bookies call their odds "ten to one," Bill goes all out: "I'll lay a thousand to a hundred." Says Bill with considerable pride: "The entire business is based on lightning judgment. Every punter [bettor] is entitled to outsmart his bookmaker if he can, and good luck to him. There's no limit to what you can win, I tell my customers. We British are born gamblers...
Shigeru Yoshida might yet prove able to outsmart his opponents. He could dissolve the Diet and force a new general election. He might resign in favor of Taketora Ogata, a trusted conservative junior ("my Eden"), and watch matters from the sidelines. His enemies, confident that they can at last strike him down, are nonetheless warily respectful of the old man's political skill...
...public performance and fame of Senator McCarthy have succeeded, as has nothing else in modern U.S. history, in laying U.S. national behavior open to the most ludicrous caricature. Into the deadly struggle to turn back Communist aggression, to outsmart and outfight Communist parties threatening France and Italy, there suddenly seems to be injected a moment of farce, of hysteria edging on madness, when the news tickers of the world click out the report that Senator McCarthy is hot on the trail of a suspect typist trapped in the Pentagon labyrinth...
...market. Rancher Gay Copeland, president of the N.C.H.A. last year, sums up the requirements: "He has to be light on his feet, like a dancer. He has to be easy to turn, and a quick thinker. He has to know which way a calf intends to move, then outsmart...