Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...badly wanted by the security police. The fact that she sheltered him laid Stavroula wide open to more party blackmail. Soon she was in up to her neck. Together with one of the city's big booksellers, an official in the Bank of Greece, the owner of a smart perfume shop and others, Stavroula formed a link in Athens' Communist apparatus. Each shop was used in turn as a yavka (Russian for front) for shipping recruits to guerrilla bands in the mountains...
...publisher of the Globe & Mail, he had added only 21,697 to the circulation he started with. In the same period, the highflying Star had caught 121,059 new subscribers; even the slow-poking Telegram had gained 42,290. The figures did not faze bellicose George. Said he: "The smart talk will soon be about the waning Star...
...readers of the tabloid Daily News next morning-or the smart minority that could read headlines-the head meant that the cops had caught an armed burglar wearing two pairs of pants and a skirt as well. Last week it was pinned on a bulletin board, and Copyreader Harry Mott got an extra $20 in his pay envelope for writing the headline of the week...
...rest of his life fishing, Marty replied, "I feel the same way -in fact, I feel like doing it right now." Thorez, still beaming, jingling loose change in his pants pocket, was surrounded by a group of newsmen. "Truman's idea of sending Vinson to Moscow was very smart," he said. "It made a deeper impression on the American people than the political experts thought." 'Everyone laughed and smoked; the room was warm...
...could prove that word came down from on high. Nevertheless, in midweek, AFA unexpectedly called off the suspension, offered to arbitrate the dispute. Negotiations dragged, and the clubs got set for Sunday games with non-union oldsters and youngsters. Smart porteño money was on a settlement that would shortly have the stars back on the field, kicking and happy...