Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Smart, swift, hard-hitting Russian diplomacy had done it again. One week after Rumania, Finland was out of the war.† In Moscow the Finnish armistice terms were signed by Foreign Minister Enckell for Finland and for Russia by Andrei Zhdanov, president of the Leningrad Soviet and Joseph Stalin's heir apparent...
...seven-foot-tall penguins who lived in a "Penguinry" of neat stone houses. The grave "chairbird" of the penguin parliament waved his flipper at the explorer. A choir of tuneful penguins rippled off "fluting sounds" of welcome that reminded the explorer of the clarinet works of Johannes Brahms. One smart penguin soon learned to speak a sort of penguin-English. "Being a bird," he clacked, "of course I think we are the form in which Life is best expressed." The explorer soon came to realize that this was no mere "bird-fancy." For the penguins devoted their lives to developing...
Royalties. Eisenhower's collection of royalties last week showed that the Allies were still fighting a smart war. The biggest single collection took place at Mons. There, by the shrewd tactic of conducting a pursuit not from behind the enemy-who could delay it by dropping off rear guards-but beside the enemy on parallel roads, General Hodges' First American Army succeeded in destroying the biggest part of the Nazi rear guard...
...Another smart move of General Hodges -pushing two columns forward to threaten Liège and then cutting the city off from behind by a third column-cut up another German division, captured a thousand prisoners, killed one general and captured another without a real fight...
...palmy days of Smart Set were over, and the depression-ridden Saturday Evening Post no longer had much room for his stories. Johnson had to borrow money to get to the Coast. He is unlikely ever to have to borrow money again...