Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been left a priceless heritage: he looked and acted like Huey. The sight of Russell up on the stump "just like his daddy" stirred the faithful as Earl could never stir them; Russell had gotten more applause than Earl at Earl's own inauguration. Moreover, Russell was smart, personable, well-educated and had a good war record. He was a comer...
...hour siesta drew to its close, life stirred along Havana's Prado. Shoeshine boys and maracas salesmen lolled under the laurel trees. English-speaking pimps eyed the few tourists who were waiting for the smart leather and perfume shops to open...
Their success has been hidden from the world by U.N. maneuvering and by a confusing war of a hundred skirmishes with real battles. Although, in years to come, fighting might break out again & again, its probable pattern was "fixed: the Jews were too tough, too smart and too vigorous for the divided and debilitated Arab world to conquer...
Since its beginning less than three years ago Stoke has examined 2,725 candidates, passed only 608. Though a Conservative M.P. recently complained in the House of Lords that Stoke was turning out "plausible smart alecks," the government's Final Selection Board has accepted Stoke's recommendations nine out of ten times. Foreign service takes all its officers from Stoke; home service still chooses some by written and oral exams. U.S. Civil Service Commissioner Arthur S. Flemming, after watching 21 candidates go through Stoke, returned to the U.S. "definitely impressed." Said he last week: "The ones that survived...
...Back. Smart management has enabled Lee Skirt to take up rising costs and then some. Despite an addition of three inches to the length of most skirts and a 5?-a-yard rise in flannel, it is currently selling one all-wool flannel item at 15% less than last year...