Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months-swept beyond Kharkov driving the Wehrmacht before him. He had swept the Germans from Stalingrad 450 miles, nearly to the Dnieper, been set back to the Donets when his supply lines grew overextended, and now was back again, pushing toward Poltava and the Dnieper, with the smart Germans choking the roads and their single southwestward railroad in retreat...
This cocky, whip-smart, 260-lb. jumbo could: 1) eat a dozen eggs at a sitting, 2) bat out a brilliant legal opinion with his eyes closed, 3) keep cocktail parties in stitches with slapstick impersonations of Herbert Hoover and Eleanor Roosevelt...
Served up with showmanship, it made a jolly evening. In the orchestra pit a lusty Army band fiddled and blew. Between playlets, enlisted men did smart tap dances, takeoffs, tricks. The playlets themselves varied in tone and quality : the two lightest were the two best. Pfc. John B. O'Dea's Where E'er We Go was a lively stenographic report of talk in barracks, with some good cracks tossed in by the stenographer. Corporal Irving G. Neiman's Button Your Lip was a comic free-for-all about dazed rookies, daffy rumors and the presence...
...smart young Detroiters, Morris Crawford Purdy and Robert Frederick Rouse, fresh out of the University of Michigan, in 1937, had an idea for a business: to take over the affairs of people ear-deep in debt and set them on their financial feet...
...year ago who thought we would be spending our vacation in historic Boston? But here we are. smart girls explore its historic by-ways until 11 o'clock; other girls study each night in hopes that some happy day they, too, may be privileged. All girls learn the inner workings of a"45" those of us with weak hands hope for a husky guard, and those of us with weak hearts hope we carry them for purposes of morale only...