Word: outwit
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...Phantom. In The Bronx, Robert Johnson failed to outwit the police. They charged he threw a barrel full of ashes through a tailor-shop window, went in and emptied the barrel, filled it up with clothes, and tried to make his getaway wrestling his burden down the street...
...assault planes, sought out and incessantly bombed the fields where the German transports landed. Where the German routes crossed Red Army territory, the Russians lined the way with hidden ack-ack batteries. Sometimes guerrilla ack-ack units planted batteries behind the German lines. German pilots flew through snowstorms to outwit the Russian hunters. The Luftwaffe constantly changed its routes, began to dispatch transports singly or in small groups rather than in large formations...
Before a hornet-mad Senate Agricultural Committee he stood by Leon Henderson, who thinks he has found a way to outwit the farm bloc. The way: 1) let farmers sell their loan wheat for what it will fetch in the market; 2) maintain such stringent retail ceilings on flour, for example, that the price of wheat will have to yield. These tricks neatly bypassed the parity-or-bust provisions farm-bloc Senators had carefully woven into the anti-inflation...
...outwit the servant shortage, League meetings are planned for evenings when undrafted fathers can care for children. Some Leagues have arranged day care for members' children so that mothers can continue their volunteer service when they have no nurses...
Competition was never tougher than on Monday afternoon. Desperately trying to outwit fellow upperclassmen (the Freshmen were definitely outnumbered) he saw that in order to meet any girls at all he would have to get an angle. He decided to use the good name of the CRIMSON (a newspaper, $6.00 a year, $7.00 mailed...