Word: outthought
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...time, beginning in the summer of 1954, Inspector Roy L. McGowen drove out to the trailer camp area where the dog foraged. Usually, McGowen could pick up a stray inside of two or three weeks. But not Maverick, the Doberman. Says McGowen: "Hell, whenever we thought we'd outthought him, he'd go a different way-over a fence or under, or just plain dang through. He's the most intelligent animal I've ever encountered." For four exasperating years the chase continued. The capture of the outlaw dog became an obsession...
Again the luck of the draw worked to pit the Australians and Americans against teammates. Sedgman whipped Rose in straight sets; Mulloy outfought and outthought Richardson, also in straight sets, to go on to the final...
...Round and round the arena he tramped, carrying a cane, wearing white pants, a blue coat and the only straw hat in the house, his round face beaming on all the fine people who had come to his tennis match. In the last part of the last set "Richards, outthought and outplayed, rallied a little, but not effectively. It was Tilden's evening...
Concerning the technique of Cochet's victory-how he popped back cannonball serves, how he outthought Tilden, how with the first ball played he started Tilden on a long run from the backcourt to the net and from baseline to baseline, a run that never stopped until Tilden, gasping, twisted his haggard face into a smile and shook hands with his conqueror-critics will hold forth for some time to come. Indeed, critics and officials alike were so interested in the champion's debacle that they forgot about everything else, and William Johnston and Jean Borotra started their...
...sunk that putt, England would have won, for Roger Wethered had beaten Francis Ouimet, Robert Harris had outdriven and outthought Jesse Guilford, and E. F. Storey had taken the measure of the U. S. enfant terrible, Roland Mackenzie. But Mr. Hezlet of England did not know what his team mates were doing; even if he had known, the recognition of what depended on his putt could only have made him more careful. He was too careful as it was. The ball stopped two inches from the hole; the Walker Cup stayed...