Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...third Army stands in French-mandated Syria and Lebanon, based on Beirut. This force is the one put together by France's fox-smart General Maxime Weygand. It consists of at least 150,000 men, mostly Colonials and Legionnaires, and its job, besides guarding against a Moslem uprising, is to go to Turkey's (or Rumania's) aid if needed...
...series of shorts to be called How to Get Fun Out of Life, officiated at a children's party given by Warners for their radiant baby star, 17-month-old Peter B. Good. Present were the offspring of Hollywood's great, gooing with pleasure at the smart talk. After games, they sat through Brother Rat and a Baby, in which Peter B. Good is the baby. Baby Peter (whom directors have trouble making cry) watched the picture closely, howled...
...their extra money by trading in bonds. The average price of U. S. Treasury long-term bonds rose from 104.2 in January to 109.5 in June, dropped to 100.5 in September, rose to 106.9 by year's end. High-grade municipal and corporate bonds gyrated just as wildly. Smart bankers who gauged the right times to buy and sell turned a pretty penny. Some were also able by buying bonds relatively cheaply during the war slump to improve the yield of their portfolios...
...partisan tradition, many of the doubters were Republicans, who grumbled less about preparedness than about the horrid prospect of preparedness taxes in an election year. But the queries came fast and loud enough to insure that capable, meticulous Chief of Naval Operations Harold Raynsford Stark, the Army's smart, hardbitten Chief of Staff George Catlett Marshall and their subordinates must give a clearer definition of what they mean by National Defense...
...tall team, averaging well over 6 feet in height and it is a smart team, skilled in ball handling and fast. To date it has been used in two formations. Gullion has started his "small" quintet, including Vaughan and Bennett, forwards; Ramsey, center; and Jolly and Resnick or Jack, guards; or he has used his "fall" team, Bennett and Ramsey, forwards; Dunbar, center, and Jolly and Vaughan, guards. He has used them depending on the quality and size of the opposition...