Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mutterings fazed Earl Warren not a bit. He had campaigned and been elected as a "nonpartisan" in 1942 and he seemed determined to go merrily along his non-partisan way. To some observers this seemed politically smart. California voters are notoriously fickle and cross party lines at the drop of a good pension plan...
Such a settlement would also have its effect on the politics of the U.A.W., the world's largest union. It was U.A.W.'s smart, redheaded Vice President Walter Reuther who two months ago first disclosed U.A.W.'s strategy of attempting to pick off the motormakers one by one, starting with General Motors. Reuther is in charge of U.A.W.'s G.M. division, and a settlement at Ford would give him a potent weapon in dealing with General Motors. It might also help him in his continued fight with U.A.W.'s left-wing Vice President George Addes...
Davis and Blanchard's individual fire power combined in one backfield adds NT to Blaik's T. With a smart quarterback mixing his one-two punches, Mister Inside and Mister Outside are guaranteed to drive a rival defense nuts. Even conservative Red Blaik says: "I doubt if any team ever had two such players in the backfield at the same time...
...thousand francs for a bottle of third-rate cognac, if there's none to be "liberated." Then he'll get squiffed to the ears and bed himself down with a fire-sale harlot for another thousand francs, if she's pretty enough and smart enough...
...Henry Biddle Paul, made $100,000 a year out of writing, in his own brand of pink perfume, about the half-world of Manhattan's cafe society for 60 U.S. papers. Igor Cassini hopes to do even better: he will concentrate on what he thinks is the International Smart Set; his ambition is worldwide syndication...