Word: outthinking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...talking about a "religious revival." The term is being "used too often, and too much is expected of it," he said to a church gathering in Omaha, Neb. "Too many of us have such great feelings about such little things. As in apostolic times, we will have to outlive, outthink and outdie the pagan world...
...realistic attitude, said Fairbank, is the best weapon against fear and the concomitant infiltration of communism. Realism, he added, involves the absence of fear--a fear which is very real in Washington right now. "It is damaging our capacity to outthink the Communists...