Word: outwits
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...Franklin, Jefferson, John Marshall and Jesse James are also cast for bit parts in Trumbo's production. If the devil can quote Scripture, surely an irritated screenwriter can dip into The Federalist. A chapter of The Remarkable Andrew is devoted to the remarkable Dalton's attempt to outwit charges of Communism and pacifism with tedious parodies of Red-baiting...
...object of this maneuver was to outwit Adolf Hitler. Large quantities of British paper money arriving in South America, the U. S. and other neutral countries had warned Britain of what was going on. In Poland, Scandinavia, The Netherlands, Belgium and France, before they were conquered, citizens hoarded sterling notes. Hitler had evidently found means to extract some of these hoarded millions from their owners and perhaps had augmented the supply by turning his own mints to counterfeiting. At any rate he was using British money to finance his war on Britain. Britain's move turned this prized valuta...
Down in Virginia's cedar-dotted Fort Belvoir, where the U. S. Army runs its only experimental camouflage laboratory, camoufleurs study how to outwit stereopticon, infrared and color photography from airplanes, try to solve such apparently insoluble problems as what to do when tanks are concealed in deep shadow and the sun goes behind a cloud; how to camouflage a truck, when an aerial camera can pick up a tireprint on the grass "almost from the stratosphere." They also experiment with dazzle v. solid color camouflage...
...landscapers landscapers of the College have adopted a new strategy to outwit Nature. Feigning indifference to the weather, the M.D. squads have recently scaled the walls of the Houses, busily dabbing paint all over, as if to prepare for a spring they know will come. So, it appears the struggle between the resolute M. D. men and obstinate Nature has come to a stalemate. Students who are pining away for a glimpse of genuine green vegetation can make a pilgrimage to the Biological Laboratories building. There are green home there...
...stirred was Utah's ordinarily placid New Dealer Elbert Thomas that a "vision" came to him in bed. He got up at 2 a. m. to write a speech which he delivered next day in the Senate. "To attempt to coerce is fatal, to attempt to outwit is disastrous," thundered Senator Thomas. "Presidents will continue to be made and unmade in the actions of the Senate of the United States." When Senators rushed up to thump Elbert Thomas' back, congratulate him, invite him to lunch, he weakly smiled that he wanted to go home...