Word: outwitted
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...since the war its length has almost doubled. The most recently reported measurement is seven feet, and they are still growing. Most of the tribute must go to Cambridge merchants who conceived the idea of a six foot scarf, realized they lad a good thing, and decided to outwit competitors by secretly adding a few inches from time to time...
Died. James Leo ("One-Eye") Connelly, 84, who devoted a lifetime to gate-crashing and became a sports-page legend during the '20s; in Zion, Ill. One eye blinded in a boyhood boxing accident, Connelly masqueraded as a sandwich vendor, iceman, or plumber's helper to outwit gatemen and gain free admission. Before he retired at 65, he boasted that during his career he had seen every Kentucky Derby, all but three heavyweight-championship bouts, countless football and baseball games, on principle had never paid for or accepted a ticket...
...wisdom. A man's character is his fate, Augie believes, and "this fate, or what he settles for, is also his character." The real battle, unseen from the outside, is internal, where "you labor, you wage and combat, settle scores, remember insults, fight, reply, deny, blab, denounce, triumph, outwit, overcome, vindicate, cry, persist, absolve, die and rise again. All by yourself! Where is everybody? Inside your breast and skin...
Unsafe Deposit. In Muncie, Ind., Supermarket Owner Lester Muster, trying to outwit burglars, kept his money in a wastebasket instead of a drawer, until an employee chucked $10,080 in cash and checks into a fire while cleaning...
...husband (Barry Sullivan) is accidentally pinned down on a beach by rotting jetty timbers, his desperate wife (Barbara Stanwyck) sets out to find help before the tide comes in. She promptly runs into the desperado, who not only commandeers her car but begins leering at her. Does the wife outwit the bad man? Is the husband saved before the tide comes in? Do the police catch the killer? For this elaborately rigged situation, Jeopardy uses too much ragged dialogue and too little real suspense...