Word: outthink
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...still superior to the Soviets militarily, without appearing to sound bellicose and threatening. "There is no doubt in my mind," he said, "that the U.S. is the most powerful country in the world." He admitted "concern" about "vulnerabilities" in NATO, but said he felt the U.S. could "outthink, out-design and outperform the Soviets with the resources we have and the steady increases we are requesting...
...hunt and even make love in ways that indicate a high order of social organization. In the seas, they often aid their wounded fellows; two fin whales spotted off Canada, for example, supported a harpooned brother on their flukes for five days. In aquariums, they cooperate with-and sometimes outthink-their captors. One group of dolphins being rewarded with fish ate until sated, then continued to perform while piling the excess fish on the pool bottom. When they got bored, they simply gave the fish back to the experimenters...
...violent and funny: Toshiro Mifune massacres scores of villains, while having to outthink not only bad men but also the clan of bungling innocents whom he is trying to protect, and who keep spoiling his stratagems in their eagerness. It has most of Kurosawa's stylistic tricks: tangles of shrubbery set between you and the action; shots of different people running, connected by fast cutting; omission or understatement of the climax of a comic episode, leaving you to assume that what was going to happen, happened...
...electronic units, analogous to brain cells, that can be produced by the billion, be made too small to see with a microscope, send 100 million signals per second, never make mistakes and last indefinitely. Computers made of these wonderful gadgets and geared for abstract thought should be able to outthink the brightest human brain...
...military threat posed by Sputnik is immense, immediate and sobering. But in the larger range of history, the graver threat is that the Soviet Union has shown itself capable of briefly surpassing the West at its strongest point-the ability of a free society to outthink and outdo Communism's driven men. This was a challenge to the very basis of the West's civilization itself, and its hope of organizing a peaceful world on the principles it held to be self-evident...