Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Capitulation and Risk. Roosevelt, Churchill, Inönü talked for three days. With them were Menemencioglu and Russia's smart, smooth Ambassador to Ankara Sergei Vinogradov. Afterward, an ambiguous, labored communiqué could not conceal that: 1) Turkey, risking war, had granted everything short of war; 2) the understanding at Cairo may have lessened but had not erased the differences between the Turks and Russians. The communiqué mentioned "closest unity" between Turkey, the U.S. and Britain. It referred to the "identity of interests and views of the great American and British democracies with those of the Soviet...
...sick were cared for in the British military hospital. We drove British ambulances, used their gasoline, rode their bicycles, ate the Indian food which some unusually smart quartermaster obtained by hiring an Indian agent to buy for us in open market...
...Neighbors. Next day, after lunch, Roosevelt moved over and took up quarters at the Embassy, receiving a smart salute from tall Soviet tommy-gunner guards as he entered. There, in his sunny private sitting room, Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin met face to face and spent their first hour together. Stalin had simply walked over on the gravel path from another of the Embassy houses, his living quarters for the meeting. An hour later Churchill and Eden walked in from the British Embassy, directly across the street, and joined the group with Molotov...
...piddling 50 tons of alumina daily (the five West Coast plants use over 30 times that amount). Alumina from clay, in this small quantity, will cost from $75 to $80 per ton compared to Alcoa's present West Coast price of about $60. But Columbia Metals' smart president, James O. Gallagher, who spent months in Washington bulling his pet plant through WPB, is confident that production can be expanded and costs...
Theodore Chadwick, Jr., assisted by Gilbert King and A. C. Petite, will command the 1st Battalion quartered in Eliot House, while the mixed NROTC pre-med contingents of the 2nd Battalion are headed by Batt. Commdr. Dean M. Hennesey, Sub-Commdr. Bruce A. Cameron, and Adjutant L. E. Smart...