Word: outthink
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Muskies are that way. There is no point in trying to outthink them because they move in a universe entirely previous to thinking, or to predictable pattern. They don't have Moby-Dick's baleful metaphysics, but sometimes fishermen work up a sort of Ahab feeling about them. They are giants, as freshwater fish go. The great muskie fisherman Len Hartman caught one weighing 67 pounds, 15 ounces in 1961 in the St. Laurence River, and the record is heavier still...
...from patrician to Jewish), and who also changed the composition of government. Until F.D.R.'s New Deal, the country had never associated the contemplative life with governmental action. Now there was a Brain Trust; being an "egghead" was useful, admirable, even sexy. One saw that it was possible to outthink the enemy. Einstein wrote a letter to Roosevelt urging the making of a uranium bomb, and soon a coterie of can-do intellectuals convened at Los Alamos to become the new cowboys of war machinery. Presidents have relied on eggheads ever since: Einstein begat Kissinger begat Rubin, Reich and Greenspan...
...Marshal in the Witness Protection Program, Arnold is really Special Agent in Charge of Blowing Stuff Up. Is he human? No, he's super- and sub-. He can outshoot, outpunch and outthink any adversary; he survives all manner of impalement. Hell, he can even type. And he has the superhero's belief in his own invincibility. Unarmed and surrounded by villains pointing heavy artillery at him, Arnold tells his main captor, "If you drop your gun, I promise I won't kill...
...precisely because its perpetrators are less organized than their forebears and thus more difficult to spot, track and intercept. To fight the rise of decentralized terror, the U.S. must respond with more sophisticated intelligence gathering. Says a top Pentagon official: "We need to improve our capabilities, to try to outthink them, to outimagine them...
Many voters try to outthink the system by marking ballots to boost weaker candidates by not voting for their original first-choice candidate in the belief that that candidate will win without their support...