Word: trumping
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...those expected to win, like the Cubans, it was harder to trump expectation. In their second game, they dispensed with Italy 18-1 and were probably distraught about giving up a run. Then they trounced Japan 8-2. One day later, to vary things a little, against an uncommonly strong U.S. team, they spotted the Americans five runs in the first inning and calmly breezed past, 9-6. Yet as they continued their imperturbable strut toward the first Olympic gold medal in the all-American pastime, the Cubans were carrying on their shoulders all the ambiguities of the Games. Were...
...your trump...
...once led a courtier to describe him as "nodding tirelessly in opposite directions," was no match for the hard men of Bolshevism. Their fledgling regime, already embroiled in intramural disputes, was threatened by enemies on all sides, and they saw the Romanovs as both a potential threat and a trump card. From the relative comfort of their initial captivity, the family was handed over to the determined Bolshevik leaders of the Red Urals in Ekaterinburg to spend their last weeks in the villa that their new masters named the House of Special Designation...
...organization' moral trump card--divestment from South Africa--has been weakened by a series of South African political moves, including the release of Nelson Manuela and the passage of the De Klerk referendum...
...From Ivana Trump: three bathrobes and two sweatshirts worth...