Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grateful, as any author would be, for the picture and for the space given to my book [Design for Power; TIME, Jan. 5]. But the review was a nasty and smart-aleck piece on a book which even the New York Times finds "earnest," "illuminating," and the best "overall interpretative survey in print." I do not question TIME'S right to print, if it chooses, in the interest of the general amusement, such a wholly misleading and unfair review of a serious book. I feel, however, that in such cases the author is entitled to a few lines...
...Erwin Rommel turned on the harrying British desert fighters and lashed fiercely with an armored paw. The strength of his sudden assault, which backed British advance elements 145 miles up the Mediterranean coast, set Britain's desert staff officers harder than ever at a tough job: outthinking as smart and resourceful a general as ever put foot in a field boot...
...dining after midnight, accustomed to stay up until at least 6 a.m., these men and their families now may listen to a full "evening" of radio, including, by transcription, some of CBS's best sustaining shows (e.g., the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, Report to the Nation). This was smart public service, and an immediate success...
...Said she: "We are in the process of organizing and we are simply going to sell millions of bonds when we get started. I'm sure you realize that even the upper classes cannot do all of the work. A streetcar conductor's wife is sometimes as smart as a woman of my position. . . . Everybody will have a part in helping me with this tremendous...
...Book. When Young Ames reaches Manhattan one day in 1833, he is a smart, poker-faced, likeable runaway from an upstate farm, who quickly gets himself a job with one of the best wholesale houses in the city-Chevalier & Deming Post. Young Ames has freckles and unruly hair through which in moments of stress he rakes his rural fingers. He is wearing the same brown country-tweed jacket (an Edmonds property) that Dan'l Harrow wore in Rome Haul. He also has indefatigable industry, a bounding business precocity, and a talent, rather uncommon in country boys...