Word: outwitting
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Elias gave him sermons and advice Instead of song, which simply proves once more What things are sure this side of paradise: Death, taxes, and the counsel of the bore. Though we outwit the tithe, make death our friend, Bores we have with us even...
Audiences are not likely to be convinced by the ending. As most of the actors draggle through their paces, it is plain that Novac and friends could easily outwit the lot of them...
...chief warrior, won sympathy as an earnest, long-suffering gentleman, but lost respect, perhaps irrevocably, when he told to what lengths he had gone to accommodate McCarthy, Cohn and Schine. Counselor Adams, the genial fixer, emerged as a sly fighter, but one whom Roy Cohn thought he could outwit-and nearly...
...witness said that he had no animosity for Secretary Stevens, "a fine, gentlemanly, courteous person." He took quite a different attitude toward John Adams, implying contemptuously that Adams had made the great mistake of trying to outwit Cohn...
...Gold Rush era, and swiftly parlays a $20,000 inheritance into something nearing a cool million. Unwittingly, she also falls in love with a handsome Telegraph Hill aristocrat named Juan Parnell, although she fights against it. They make up their lovers' quarrel just in time to outwit two murderous swindlers who have suckered San Francisco financial circles in a colossal confidence game...