Word: outsmarts
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...like a tent in front of Queen Jerri and the assembled cool crowd, offering up his razors with a truly pathetic look on his face. And if you're an Army guy who can't fish, can't bond with others, and lets an old lady with plastic teeth outsmart you in the Tribal Council (although technically, Maralyn voted for "Cal," so maybe that doesn't count), you're better off back at the base saluting toilets with a toothbrush...
...survey questions again and compare your 2000 and 2004 responses. Will you be better off? Possibly. Will this improvement be the direct result of the next president? In all likelihood, no. But as a civic-minded Harvard graduate, won't you be glad that you have a way to outsmart the candidates, see through their rhetoric and make a judgment for yourself...
...headlines ranged all the way from "Truth" to "False Statement," with several gradations in between. "Inaccuracy" is defined as "the subject is exaggerating." And "Outsmart" indicates "the subject is being cynical...
...with his new wife Rosamund. Bellow readily acknowledges that this part of the novel was lifted pretty directly from his own life in 1994. "I was in St. Martin, and I went to a little French restaurant. I said, 'Do you have any local catch?' thinking that I'd outsmart the frozen-fish scene. But it didn't work, because it is the inland fish, the reef feeders, who get these poisons." Thanks to Freedman's quick thinking in an emergency, Bellow was flown back to Boston and landed in intensive care. Rumors at the time had him near death...
...dealing with a swarm of killer bees, don't attempt to outsmart them. If you leap into a nearby swamp to escape them, they'll be waiting for you when you come up for air. This time...