Word: outwitting
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...drops open; the blood rushes out of his brain; his guts crowd into his belly. Too many Gs can black a man out, cripple him or even kill him. Air battles of the future, fought above the speed of sound, will be won by pilots equipped to outwit...
...period when the enlightened wastrel begins to think less about the subject he is surveying and more about the exam. Even the diligent student becomes less concerned with knowing his courses and more with simply appearing to know. This brings them both around to the problem of how to outwit the grader, a problem which is met in one of three ways: 1. By appealing to his vanity as a scholar, which makes it difficult for him to admit that he doesn't know exactly what you are talking about. 2. By appealing to his instincts and sympathies...
...Swimmer's itch," long thought to be caused in salt water by pollution or jellyfish stings, has been traced to the common mud snail. The snail's tiny larvae attack swimmers in calm waters and cause an itchy rash. Best way to outwit them: avoid still waters, keep splashing, take a shower afterwards...
...imagine an "individual" operating a school for crime, teaching armed robbery, assault, murder, safe-cracking; how to outwit federal agents and the like? Would such an "individual" be right in teaching these things if he thought them right? Should the police and authorities have the right to prevent this "individual" from teaching what he thinks right? Well...
...musicians play loud enough for a singer to hear them distinctly, they may find themselves playing too loud for televiewers to hear anything else. Soprano Marguerite Piazza has to go it alone in her operatic arias, trusting Music Director Charles Sanford to follow her lead. Sanford, trying to outwit ricocheting echoes, wages continuous war with tricky acoustics; he has hung the theater with painted canvas, shellacked beaverboard, velvet draperies and soundproofed scoops and baffles. TV music has become more a question of artful deception than full-bodied playing. Says Sanford: "When the score calls for an aggressive style of music...