Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More Planes, Please. Mahon had hardly completed his mild, deliberate introduction to next year's blueprint for defense when Georgia's crusty old Carl Vinson took the floor. A smart, longtime supporter of a big Navy who had come to a realization of the importance of air power, Carl Vinson was not arguing against the air. He simply wanted more planes for the Navy's air arm. The bill, he said, pointing an accusing finger at Mahon, would put the replacement rate for aircraft so low that the Navy would be down to 4,000 planes within...
Dennis quickly learned the new doctrine and stared into the tunnel now yawning before him. Who would be chosen for Browder's job? There were some fairly smart men around headquarters: Jack Stachel, a little man with the face of a heron who had been in & out of the underground; cold, Kewpie-like John Williamson, national labor secretary. But Moscow's hand fell on the shoulder of U.S.-born Eugene Dennis...
Milliner Lilly Daché arrived in Manhattan with the breathless news that the women of Paris are less interested in hats than in men. The three males who crop up most in conversation when smart Parisiennes let their hair down: World Citizen Garry Davis (admired for his "courage and . . . youthful hope"), Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre (for his "unsweetened approach to modern life") and British Cinemactor James Mason ("He is just the 150% man, with ego, contrariness, even cruelty...
During the "heated" discussion, the delegation insisted that students are smart enough to resist the influence of organizations advocating un-American ways, but should be allowed to hear and understand all political views. The suggestion was accepted as ADA policy after considerable pushing by the HLU delegation, Levine said...
...Screen Plays, Inc.; United Artists) is a full-length portrait of a middleweight heel. Based on a hard-bitten short story by the late Ring Lardner, it is a brilliant example of the kind of punch a mall studio can pack, if it has an intelligent script and a smart director. To get by the Johnston Office, Scripter "Carl Foreman made his hero, Midge Kelly Kirk Douglas), a shade gentler than Lardner's original. The movie Midge, for instance, does not paste his dear old mother in the jaw. Otherwise he is just about as unlovely a piece...