Word: outwitted
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...refined and left a lasting imprint on the detective formula. An "Agatha Christie" became a shorthand description for an unadorned display of crime unmasked by perceptive and relentless logic. She dared readers to outwit her, and few resisted the challenge. Shortly after her death in 1976, one estimate put the worldwide sale of her works at 400 million copies. Given such glittering evidence and the clues provided by her fiction, a mystique was bound to develop around the one whodunit: Agatha the enchantress, the proper Englishwoman with a power to murder and create. When she insisted that the truth...
More important even than money power is the power of television. Television is the main battleground for public opinion in our time, and professional campaign designers try to outwit television news masters in a game of mask-ing-and-unmasking, or "I've got a secret" against "This is their secret." Television reaches its climax in the so-called great debates. For forgotten reasons these debates, sponsored by the League of Women Voters, wander like a traveling road show from city to city. They are vital as a display of contending personalities, but they have degenerated into quiz shows...
Galvin found that people with chronic pain either focus their lives on it, or consider it a monster to outwit and a goad to greater achievement. Says she: "President Kennedy, whose New Hampshire primary campaign I covered for TIME, was one of the latter. My husband, who has arthritis, is another. If ever I am confronted with chronic pain, I will try to remember these profiles in courage...
...list of holdouts grew smaller and smaller. Cuba, with no ready cash, dispatched its team on a boat loaded with sugar and tobacco; at each port of call, the cargo would be auctioned off to help defray expenses. Even Germany managed to outwit its future Fuhrer and sent 125 of its best young athletes...
...breed of entrepreneurs has sprung up along the river to make the crossings easier. At El Paso, Manuel Banuelos Rubio carries people over the border on his back for a few pesos a ride. He has found that some people try three or four times before they eventually outwit agents. Mexicans who are arrested in the U.S. are given the choice of either returning home or facing trial. Almost all choose to go back and then simply cross again and again, until they finally make...