Word: outwits
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...feelingly the beautiful brutality of nature unshackled is not interested in peace. A man whose passions run so high he strikes natives in his anger at the sea is not concerned with reason. A man who sets out to battle demons of the deep which out-weigh and outwit him, with only his wife and bull-dog for company, cares little for security. He is an adventurer, and his tale is one of adventure...
...many other fire fighters have been killed). He is wealthy enough to retire on his fire fighting earnings (an estimated $100,000 a year), plus royalties on oilfield tools, sold by a company he owns in Houston. But Kinley, who regards fire as a personal demon always scheming to outwit him, can never resist the next jangle of the long-distance fire bell. Says he: "I guess I'll retire when they carry...
...leadership failed to check and to turn back Communist ambition before it savagely attacked us. The Korean war-more perhaps than any other war in history-simply and swiftly followed the collapse of our political defenses. There is no other reason than this: we failed to read and to outwit the totalitarian mind...
Springfield Rifle (Warner) shows how Major Gary Cooper helped outwit Confederate spies during the Civil War and thus insured victory for a decisive Union Army offensive. Cooper is cashiered out of the cavalry, supposedly for cowardice. Actually, he has been assigned as an undercover agent to crack a Southern spy ring that is hijacking horses. With the help of the new, rapid-firing Springfield rifle, Cooper finally triumphs over the horse raiders, and is rewarded with an appointment to head a department of military intelligence in Washington...
Roaming the Mediterranean during the 18th century. Pirate Lancaster and his capering, cutthroat crew outwit the King of Spain's men on sea. land and even in the air-by means of an anachronistic balloon. There is also a subplot about El Libre (Frederick Leister), a democratic rebel, and his pretty daughter (Eva Bar-tok), who is loved by Lancaster...