Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the broadcast the Shah sent a messenger to Britain's whip-smart Minister Sir Reader William Bullard. The gist of his message: "What do I do now?" The answer, polite but inflexible, was what the Shah expected. Getting into his limousine, he drove to town. There he left a letter with his brand-new Prime Minister Ali Feroughi. Then he drove south, 200 miles to Isfahan...
Since store operating costs are relatively inflexible, net profits soar much faster than sales. For the average storekeeper, 1941 is the lushest year in a decade; for smart operators, the best ever. Some semiannual reports...
Everything, during these hours, was momentous, but sometimes Joseph Stalin got off simple, heavy jokes. He said that the Nazis were too smart to put the Italians in the front line; Hitler used them for dishwashers. He laughed loudly at this one, but behind his own laughter he could hear the mechanized, Hitlerian tramp of destiny...
...unpredictable elements, the Germans undertook a heavy and lengthy bombardment of the city. All day long-range Nazi cannon, skulking in ash-colored Karelian soil, cracked high explosives into Leningrad's defenses. All night the Eighth Air Corps and the ugly "black beetles" of the Luftwaffe's smart Richthofen Squadron dealt out destruction, until the night glowed red with fire and death...
Ends Sinclair Weeks, Jr., Bigelow Watts, Jr., William Whittington, George S. Wallace, Fred B. Withington, Jr., Stephen B. Smart, Don W. Richards, George B. Post, Hugh McCaffey, John H. Hewitt, Bradley D. Harris, Howard Hodgson, William J. Hornbeck, James W. Hubbell, Jr., Peter Garland, Ed French, George P. Early, Philip Drake, Victor J. Dowling, John P.E. Dempsey, George N. Casey, Clarence J. Clark, Arthur Bauman, Frank D. Bixler, Sherwood Bain and Thomas R. Ayres...