Word: cleverer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tough time thinking up a costume. I couldn't go as a seed packet so I was stuck. Then I glanced at my roommate's bed and got a great idea. So I cut these two holes in his sheet and went as a ghost. Pretty clever, huh? I thought so, but when I got to where the guys told me the party was supposed to be, I rushed in through the door yelling "Boo" and moaning and stuff, but it turned out to be some alumni cocktail party for the class of '48 that Harry [Gamble...
Ford's pre-emptive first strike on the issue of tax and spending cuts seemed like shrewd economics as well as clever politics. On the one hand, most economists, including a good many conservatives, are persuaded that more stimulus, in the form of bigger tax breaks, will be needed in the future to ensure that the recovery continues. At the same time, even liberals will find it hard to deny that some effort to hold down federal spending is necessary. However, some economists wonder whether Ford's challenge will have the intended impact on Capitol Hill. For instance...
...skits are clever enough. A marriage breaks up over the respective merits of Greta Garbo and Donald Duck. But the punchlines are too facile (man to lemming: only thing I don't understand about you lemmings is why you run to the sea and drown yourselves. Lemming to man: and the thing I don't understand about you men is why you don't) and the wit occasionally succumbs to Richard Goldfarb's erratic direction...
Harvard students have a reputation for being lousy fans. Cool dispassionate observers rule the roost at Harvard Stadium. Clever, cryptic cuts dominate conversations at Soldier's Field and a social faux pas is admitting you're even considering going to the football game before Saturday noon...
...used saxitoxin in suicide pills for its own agents (U2 Pilot Francis Gary Powers had one, but chose to pass it up) and had it on hand to eliminate troublesome guard dogs when breaking into embassies and some other places. The agency reportedly developed dart guns and other clever means of delivering the poison...