Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Patel's Home Ministry denied that it had ordered the raids, but few familiar with the workings of the Criminal Intelligence Department believed that it was coincidence that brought police simultaneously to Red headquarters in Delhi, Bombay, Calcutta, Lucknow and seven other cities. India's Communist leader, smart, tousled Puran Chandra Joshi, followed the Moscow line by blaming the British for the raids...
...gossip columnists rushed forward and took hasty bows. Some of the gossips (who predict a hatful of things, on the chance that a few will come to pass) had predicted long ago that Jimmy Byrnes would quit. In their self-adulation they missed a more exciting item: how a smart reporter had smoked out the season's biggest diplomatic story three days before...
...Dairymen's League Co-operative Association, representing some 50% of the 44,000 milk producers in the six-state New York milkshed, thought it had done such a smart piece of work that it bragged of it. The league proudly admitted that it had rigged New York's butter market (TIME, Jan. 6) in December to keep milk prices up. (Under a federal-state marketing formula, this milkshed's January prices would largely be determined by the prices of butter for the 30 days ending...
...last week the league did not feel so smart. In Manhattan's Federal District Court, the U.S. Government filed a criminal information under the Commodities Exchange Act, charging the league and four of its topmost officers with illegally manipulating a commodity in interstate commerce. Maximum penalty: a $10,000 fine and one year in jail. To boot, the Department of Justice was making an antitrust investigation of the butter collapse, and the Department of Agriculture was considering a move to cut the January milk prices...
...Hard To Find," by James B. O'Connell, and for the most part it is an excellent story. Apparently suggested by some of the author's own experience, it tells its tale of an accidental shooting and resulting death in China during the war with a flare for smart phraseology, and only occasionally lapses into what an English A instructor might mark with one of his handy labels such as jargon or fine-writing. The rest of the stories range from pretty good to pretty bad, and point up the need for "Radditudes" to jazz up its make-up, throw...