Word: outwitted
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...indomitable will to succeed and the ability to overcome natural handicaps. A practical sort was Blanche d'Antigny. An inordinately heavy sleeper, she found early in her career that a chance admirer at times stole off without paying. She soon came up with a way to outwit such a lover: she would sew his nightshirt to her own nightgown before going off into slumberland...
...undertook intricate monetary manipulations, initially to induce reflation at home and later to stabilize the dollar. By reducing the gold content of U.S. currency, Roosevelt and Morgenthau hoped to raise domestic-commodity prices. They bought gold both at home and abroad, gradually increasing the dollar price while seeking to outwit gold speculators...
PISTOLS 'N' PETTICOATS (CBS, 8:30-9 p.m.). Ann Sheridan stars as Hank Hawks in a new comedy western series about a modern Annie Oakley who can outfight, outshoot and outwit any man west of the Mississippi. Premiere...
...noble, rugged, beer-drinking type who had fought against Hitler and Franco, and his consort is a very nice schoolteacher married to someone else. The jilted husband sets Security on the coup!e. It is a setup calculated to have the bleachers cheering as the pro-Communist pair outwit the villainous security men. The proletarian hero investigates the investigators and exposes his three persecutors as 1) the husband of a convicted shoplifter and father of a reefer-drag ging beatnik son, 2) a collector of fancy ceramics specializing in Victorian toilet bowls, and 3) a queer...
...nearly equal that of Spain's olive farmers. So far, the Spanish government has announced no new plans to aid the industry, but olive growers have hopes for an ongoing fiveyear, $500,000 research campaign on some 50,000 trees in various blighted areas, which aims to outwit the Dacus fly with phosphorous compounds...