Word: outwitting
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...host. None of them can understand why they have been brought in the company of their adversaries. Suddenly a radio loudspeaker informs them that they are prisoners, that one by one each shall die defeated by his or her secret viciousness, that if anyone is clever enough to outwit the host, he, will perish in the presence of his remaining guests...
...nothing had happened. Next day an airplane, heavy laden, arrived at Kandahar from Kabul via Peshawar, British India; and out slumped Big Brother Inayatullah. For him were flown no royal standards. Therefore the double abdication of last week appeared as nothing more than a successful double cross to outwit Bandit Bacha Sakao, and permit King Amanullah to stage a coup d' escape...
Many and ingenious are the devices by which labor unions provide work for strikers, hoping to outwit, outlast the resistance of employers. In New Bedford, Mass., striking textile workers have turned fishermen (TIME, Aug. 13). In Milwaukee, Wis., last week, striking clothing workers turned industrialists...
...search of a bride. Year after year correspondents have cried "Wolf! Wolf!" to the effect that he was going to marry this princess or that, whenever Bachelor Tsar Boris has set out for his annual vacation (TIME, July 26, 1926, et ante). This year the Tsar resolved to outwit rumor mongers...
...actor gives more generously of his profile and passion. The scenario is said to be related to Abbe Prevost's Manon Lescaut. At any rate, it resembles Mr. Barrymore's other romantic films in that it gives him the opportunity to wear heroic clothes, kill villains, and outwit King Louis XV. After doing these things many times, he finds himself in a tiny sailboat with Dolores Costello bound for the U. S. and freedom. A Vitaphone concert preceded the film...