Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hundred Congressmen met in caucus, demanded Congress be given full facts, battered away at Leon Henderson. Said Tennessee's Republican John Jennings Jr.: "... a smart aleck . . . dictator...
...ground is at the edge of the Missouri River, not far from the town of Kings Row (TIME, April 15, 1940). Peter works it devilishly hard, makes a smart deal with the railroads. His farm becomes the talk of the community he scorns; he is a rich man. But thanks pretty much to his own hardheadedness, one son runs away, another fares worse, he loses his wife, the river ravages his land. He winds up on the verge of "a void where there were neither directions nor dimensions." Peter is sympathetically realized, and he is surrounded by some refreshing characters...
...market for at least that much more. Anticipating this off-balance supply & demand situation, coffee prices started rising a year ago, were about to run away when Henderson slapped on a price ceiling last December. Since then coffee prices have given Leon nightmares. A tough, politically smart, internationally minded lot, the coffee boys set up a clamor for a higher ceiling. OPA boosted...
Schneider, P.; Shulz, A. H.; Schwab, A. Jr.; Schwartz, G. P.; Sellersfi C. G.; Seton, P. H.; Shwitzer, R. A.; Silver, H. E.; Sleisenger, M. H.; Smart, L. E. Jr.; Smythe, D. G.; Stewart, C. P., Jr.; Storer, R. T. P., Jr.; Suskind...
...called, asked: "Do you remember Annalee Whitmore?" At Stanford she had worked on the college paper with him. Now a scriptwriter for MGM, she wanted help to get a passport to China. Jacoby spent a week wire-pulling, announced one day to his mother: "That girl's damn smart." She got the passport and a publicity job in Chungking. Jacoby went on his way to Chungking by Clipper, was hired by TIME. Once after a bad air raid he wrote to discourage her coming, saying Chungking was no place for a woman. At the bottom of the letter...