Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...irony of the new attack was that smart Joseph Stalin had outsmarted himself. Russia, whose pact with Germany enabled Hitler to start the war, now felt the full fury of the war. Adolf Hitler's proclamation was full of accusation of Russian double-dealing and Russia's Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov retorted in kind. The accusations were unimportant. In the charges of neither side was there even a tone of surprise. They had never trusted each other. In the timetable of German-Russian relations since the Non-Aggression Pact of August 1939 (see col. 3) could...
...Smart, young (40) Alan Valentine, a Rhodes scholar, was accused by fellow Rhodesmen of ingratitude to Britain when he began two years ago to write impassioned letters to Senators and President Roosevelt demanding that they keep the U.S. out of war. He went to Washington this year to oppose the Lend-Lease Bill. Now in favor of U.S. arming for defense, he insists that to send troops to Europe would be "pure midsummer madness...
...Atlanta last week was completed one of the biggest airline underwritings ever handled by a single investment banker. Courts & Co., bossed by smart, wise Richard Winns Courts Jr., hung the "sold out" sign on 60,000 shares of Delta Air Corp. common, priced at $9.50 a share. To Courts & Co. this meant $75,000 commissions (plus $3,000 legal fees). To D.A.C. it meant $495,000 with which to bolster working capital, reduce debts, look ahead...
...Stevens -Stevens for nothing, K.T. derived from Katherine, which is the name she signs on hotel registers. Her petition was granted, but she will have to wait for a final OK until after July 20, when she'll be 21. K.T. is quite sure no other actress has been smart enough to use initials. She insists it was her own idea, but feels that the picture of childish absorption drawn by a rapt interviewer in the Chicago Daily News of June 7 is a slight exaggeration...
...Merrill picked a small, smart...