Word: outwitted
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...Fille's plot is as wispy as a ruffled tutu: Lise, daughter of a prosperous farmer, falls in love with a strapping lad named Colas, but is opposed by her mother, who wants her to marry Alain, idiot son of a wealthy vineyard owner. Lovers outwit mother, amor vincit omnia, curtain. The original score was probably written by an unknown member of the Bordeaux Grand Theater Orchestra, was later revised by Ferdinand Herold, chorus master of the Paris Opera, who included such pirated tidbits as the overture to Barber of Seville, As for the choreography-originally by Jean Bercher...
Supporting this maneuver is Humphrey's strong majority in the state party organization (six out of ten district chairmen announced for him, as did 35 out of 71 county chairmen), but they stand less than an even chance to outwit State Chairman Pat Lucey, shrewd mainstay of Kennedy's organization...
Twilight Zone (CBS, 10-10:30 p.m.). Playwright-Producer Rod Serling's exercise in fantasy. This one brings back that old pitchman Ed Wynn to play an old pitchman trying to outwit "Mr. Death...
...setting, Paul Davenant's will to die often seems stronger than his will to live, and more than once, suicide seems preferable to treatment. What makes life tolerable is his love affair with a girl patient, whose courage surpasses his; her simple presence makes it seem necessary to outwit and outfight the disease. For the first time in his life, he knows love, but he knows it only because it is framed in suffering...
...Germans were also very nasty about anti-handling booby traps. One type of fuse was supersensitized after the bomb hit the ground, with a switch so delicate that it could operate if the bomb shell was tapped with a pencil. Hartley's men learned to outwit some mechanisms by injecting a quick-setting plastic. If the bomb is too difficult to defuse, they drill holes in its casing and melt out the explosive with live steam...