Word: outthink
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...regarded him mainly as an international "board chairman," Miller, himself a combat correspondent for Yank, sees Eisenhower as a consummate politician and diplomat whose mixture of heartiness, cunning and charm helped hold together a fragile military coalition. "He was most complex," Miller writes. "Dwight Eisenhower could and did outsmart, outthink, outmaneuver, outgovern, and outcommand almost anybody you'd care to name, including Winston Churchill, Charles de Gaulle, and yes, even Franklin Roosevelt. I don't know that he ever read Niccolo Machiavelli or La Rochefoucauld, but he practiced what they preached...
...first game loss deflated the Crimson's spirits, and they appeared to lose intensity in the second game. "We started putting pressure on ourselves, said sophomore Mohan Nadkarni. "We tried to outthink their offense instead of just reacting...
...People (1980), with Karla crossing over from East Berlin into Western arms. Le Carré's emphasis throughout the Smiley sagas was on the abstract detachment of his hero, his intellectual moves in a global game of chess. Smiley and Karla had the time to outwait and outthink each other. What little bloodshed both could cause was accidental, a messy byproduct of otherwise elegant planning. The Middle East, as it is and as Le Carré portrays it, offers no such leisure. The distance between theory and the front lines is a missed step, an incautious gesture. Watches tick...
...coach he was unapologetically more imitator than innovator. Bryant did not outthink his opponents, he outworked them. "I'm just a plow hand from Arkansas," he would say. "But I've learned over the years how to hold a team together. How to lift some men up, how to calm down others, until finally they've got one heartbeat, together, a team...
...learned how to be a winning driver. The other drivers quickly got over the fact that his eyes are blue. He has great concentration, almost a woman's delicacy, guts enough to be good in the rain. He's foxy, says Sharp; he'll outthink...