Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tall, whip-smart young Jesuit named Father Hernan Benitez saw to it that Eva Perén's visit to Paris was the works. He showed up in the French capital ahead of time, quickly signed up the big shots for dinners and receptions, arranged a sightseeing schedule that omitted few historical monuments. But Father Benitez, who is both Evita's chaperon and confessor, could do nothing about the weather. The weather was cruel...
...little Coronet had grown, bragged smart Publisher David Smart last year, was simply terrific. From, a prewar circulation of 120,000, his precocious, pocket-sized monthly† had, he said, soared to 4,000,000 a month. That put Coronet among the four biggest magazines...
...seemed to some of them oldfashioned: he loved virtue, in an unembarrassed and trusting fashion. Some smart undergraduates might misunderstand his generosity and think him gullible, but most of his pupils learned to admire and respect him for his unique combination of learning and innocence...
...provide music, Hussey asked Britain's Benjamin Britten, composer of dissonant operas (Peter Grimes, Rape of Lucretia), to write a cantata to words from 18th Century Poet Christopher Smart's poem, Rejoice in the Lamb. Composer Michael Tippett wrote a special Fanfare for the occasion, which was considered most impressive when perspiringly played in the church's gallery by -the Northamptonshire Regimental Band...
Papa conceded that the Taft-Hartley Act would force him to leave the union's life-&-death powers out of future contracts. But he did not seem concerned. Kansas' rawboned Representative Wint Smith, who had heard back home that city folk were smart people, summed up the committee's opinion of New York's food merchants. "They talk about hicks," he said. "This seems to be a fertile field...