Word: outtalk
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...Crimson's Tom Cochrane was scratched from the event with some difficulty. The NCAA has a ruling that once a swimmer is scratched from one event, he is automatically scratched from all other events. But freshman coach Bill Brooks raced on ahead of the team and was able to outtalk the officials' objections that a scratching would overbalance the heats...
...Slender, handsome, kind-hearted and a spectacular orator, he is the most popular man in Indonesia. No Indonesian can outtalk him; he has survived innumerable revolts, more than a dozen Cabinet changes, a restive army. He has skimmed John Dewey, Marx, Lenin, Jefferson, Lincoln, John Reed, Otto Bauer, and is still tingling over the discoveries. Dotes on American history, but at times comes up with such historical whoppers as: "There was lack of law and order in America for 60 years following the Revolution." Enjoys painting, good conversation, the company of pretty women. Divorced his first wife...
...Chirote, a jungle isle 20 miles off the coast of Panama. ¶ In Manhattan, the nation's cage-bird breeders held their fourth national show with 2,021 entries, mostly canaries, including such varieties as curly feathered frills, big Norrich plain-heads. An Indian hill myna, who will outtalk a parrot any day, welcomed visitors with: "Hello, Joe! You can go to hell, too." ¶ Twenty men wearing American Legion caps burst into the La Crescenta, Calif, home of retired Fruit Grower Hugh Hardyman, who was holding a meeting of the local Democratic Club. The invaders addressed the audience...
Paisano Tracy, who can outthink and outtalk his hot-headed young friend, manages to turn the timepiece into four jugs of wine and to reduce Garfield's marriageability by inadvertently burning down one of his inherited houses. But when the irascible, love-struck fellow actually accepts a job to prepare for his marriage, they know he is beyond recall. Their final philosophic gesture, done in sorrow, is to fire his remaining house while he is away honeymooning...
...talked too much. He told the President all about what I was about to tell him about my world tour. Pat and Bernard Shaw are the only two people who can outtalk me. I had the President stopped. . . . While I was in there we fixed up all the affairs of the world. The only thing we didn't get to was Al Smith and Huey Long. . . . The President was in fine humor and he told the jokes. Said Pennsylvania, the second richest State, was the only one that had passed the tin cup for relief from the Federal Government...