Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Smart Move. In Los Angeles, Howard Taylor told his tenants to move, learned they had, taking his house with them...
...sent City Solicitor Anne X. Alpern to the courts to get an injunction forbidding the strike on the ground that the city's welfare was involved. One minute before George's deadline, Judge Walter P. Smart, a Democrat, forbade the strike, ordered top officials of the company's complicated hierarchy* to sit down with George. But the injunction only postponed the showdown. George called the injunction a mere "scrap of paper," struck anyhow...
...Judge Smart and two fellow judges, both Republicans, held George in contempt of court and sentenced him to a year in jail...
West Virginia elections, withheld endorsement of either Democratic Senator Harley Martin Kilgore (who expected U.M.W. support) or peppery, 42-year-old Navy Veteran Tom Sweeney of Wheeling. Harley Kilgore was worried not so much by absence of the miners' blessing as by absence of miners' meat. Smart, energetic Tom Sweeney figured that his chances had risen from 50-to-50 to 52-to-48. The prospect: a hard-run race...
...doesn't pay to hit Joe Louis so hard it hurts him. By keeping things on a friendly basis, such smart boxers as Bob Pastor and Billy Conn induced the Brown Bomber to toy with them for as many as eleven and 13 rounds before the inevitable kill. But Tami (rhymes with mammy) Mauriello, the tubby Bronx challenger, decided to play rough. At the opening bell of last week's title fight he walked out from his corner, took one look at the overconfident Louis, and pitched a right with the urgency of a man unloading a hand...