Word: outsmarts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...careless atomic aggressor, Professor Teller admits, might outsmart himself by poisoning the atmosphere too strongly: the radioactive wind might sweep around the world and irradiate his own nation. But even this obstacle is not insuperable: "Different radioactive products have different rates of decay. The attacker is therefore in a position to choose the radioactive products best suited to his attack. With the proper choice, he could ensure that his victim would be seriously damaged by them, and that they would have decayed by the time they reached his own country...
...here.' The reply: 'Yes, we haven't seen a steak like that in the club for two years.' ... I might add the memory of a man who wrote to my son after a similar informal gathering: 'I always thought the British were apt to outsmart us until I listened to Lord Halifax. Now I know it is not true...
Barrack-Room Blandishments. Perón had wooed the Radical leaders with barrack-room blandishments. Once he got control of their rusty but still-effective party machinery, he hoped to outsmart his enemies, become "elected" president of Argentina...
...Curtis) - only children and dafties, of course, can communicate with ghosts. From his angel wife Charlie learns that he can still crash the pearly gates if he reforms a living sinner. He pitches on the neighborhood's lustiest devotee of Scotch, women and dice, and their efforts to outsmart each other provide the brightest moments in the play. In the course of it all Charlie outsmarts himself; no Heavenly fling, he discovers, can equal a good old Highland fling...
...billion) represented the largest flow of cash into consumers' hands of any month in U.S. history. That this unprecedented income flow did not automatically produce an unprecedented price inflation-i.e., a much higher dollar volume of retail sales -once again proved that the people can still sometimes outsmart the economists...