Word: outsmarts
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...Inspector General (Warner) is a Danny Kaye comedy based-a long way off base-on Nicolay Gogol's satiric Russian classic about the impostor who helps some corrupt officials outsmart themselves. Watered down and gagged up as it is, Gogol's idea is still engaging, and Comic Kaye is man enough to make even thin material look nervously good...
...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...