Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chinese Nests. James was often the butt of smart young London intellectuals in the years before World War I. Everything about Henry James made him an easy target for their wit-particularly his resolute love of England in the face of the English stories that were told about him and the jokes that were played...
...Russians, believe me, are not smart enough to have single-handedly created the Communists of Europe." Europe's chronic ills-overpopulation, maldistribution of goods and wealth, the failure of its educated class to provide leadership, the selfishness of its wealthy-"these are the facts which create Communists...
...Price, a Republican. The big campaign issue was a proposed $30 million express highway across the city. Republican Price plumped hard for it. Democrat Lundy said he'd kill it 30 minutes after he was sworn in. He adopted a homely slogan: "I may not be so blamed smart, but I can find my way home...
President Picado, a feckless figurehead in a bright red shirt, was cooped up in the red-roofed Casa Presidencial. It was smart, stocky, 39-year-old Manuel Mora, leader of the Communist Vanguardia Popular, who ran things from the Bella Vista fortress. Last week he reached outside the capital and put one of his men in command of a government battalion which was moving against the rebels from coastal Playa Dominical. His forces had control of United Fruit banana plantations on the Pacific Coast, and were burning and looting. When Archbishop Victor Manuel Sanabria crossed the lines to bring...
...wife and three children, Batista now lives quietly in Daytona Beach -next door to 83-year-old automotive pioneer Ransom Eli Olds. Every morning, he is up at 7 for a brisk row in the nine-foot boat he keeps in the Halifax River. He plays tennis at the smart Daytona Beach Bath and Tennis Club, goes to the movies two or three times a week and occasionally speaks at Rotary Club luncheons...