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• The word was probably coined, on the model of Stephen Potter's "gamesmanship", by the American politician Adlai Stevenson in his criticism of the philosophy described as "going to the brink" during an interview with US Secretary of State John Foster Dulles during the Eisenhower administration.
• The conversation was usually sedate at the beginning of the program, but as opposing viewpoints emerged there was more verbal rough-housing, good-natured gamesmanship and occasionally very loud crosstalk as panelists attempted to out-yell the others, all of which were the show's trademarks.
• For example, if an opponent is about to take a shot at billiards, it is bad gamesmanship to fidget and whistle but good gamesmanship to distract him by loudly requesting silence from spectators: 'Simulate annoyance, on the opponent's behalf, with the onlookers'.
• She was also soured on publishing her work due to her distaste for the gamesmanship of the publishing world.
• The uniforms of early carhops were important, as many drive-ins were competing and something eye-catching was seen as gamesmanship.
• Orta may have been on the receiving end of some gamesmanship on September 20 when Angels catcher Bob Boone accused Orta of using a corked bat after his first at-bat of the game.
• Bertin is credited with the invention of the feuilleton, a supplement to a newspaper's political section, usually in smaller type, that carries gossip, fashion, criticism, epigrams and charades, and fosters a culture of literary gamesmanship.
• " Sean Burns of the Philadelphia Weekly commented that "For all its formal wizardry, Memento is ultimately an ice-cold feat of intellectual gamesmanship.
• Some of the Australians were demoralised by their second-innings collapse but fast bowler Spofforth, enraged by some gamesmanship on the part of Grace, was determined to win.
• While an Army NTC official called him "the best war fighter the Army has got," colleagues of Macgregor were concerned that "the Army is showing it prefers generals who are good at bureaucratic gamesmanship to ones who can think innovatively on the battlefield," and some saw him as too blunt or arrogant.
• In private practice, Grendell took a case where he represented people opposed to a rezoning issue, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled against Grendell's clients and sharply criticized his reliance on "gamesmanship," "dilatory actions" and "unjustified delaying tactics".
• Rebello gamely traces how real-life political drama combined with rank Hollywood gamesmanship to create a classic of American film.
• After which he wrote Cricket Controversy, Test matches in Australia 1946-47, an account of the series in which he was critical of the poor selection of the England team, Wally Hammond's uninspired leadership, Don Bradman's overeagerness to win, which Cary thought verged on gamesmanship, and the mistakes made by the Australian umpires George Borwick and John Scott.
• Some of his tactics were quite intimidatory and stank of out-and-out gamesmanship that made old pros like me wince.
• Jockeying for power by self-interested actors produces not a stable balance but sub-optimal chaos; gamesmanship and the pursuit of short-term objectives distracts players from the truly pressing issues of human survival and stability.
• When working with this network, reported Politico in 2018, Koch aims at nonpartisanship and avoids "the hard-charging political gamesmanship" often identified with the Kochs.
• Teams would also often water down basepaths to slow down opposing baserunners, something which was considered gamesmanship.

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