Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plea from son David, 12, was soulful and wide-eyed, so Tennessee Senator Estes Kefauver ambled outside for a look. There, smart as paint, stood a neighbor's new, factory-built scooter (equipped with a 2½-h.p. engine) that David wanted in trade for his old, homemade soapbox racer. Brightly, the Keef decided that he'd better take a ride-just to make sure the deal was fair and square. Democrat Kefauver, all of 6 ft. 3 in., hunched himself in, buzzed off down a hill sporting the widest of aha-the-voters smirks. Soon learning that...
...journalism training or not. But I think most papers have come to depend on journalism schools to recruit their help." Even such a salty old-schooler as the Detroit Times's City Editor Jim Trainor concedes: "Journalism school won't hurt a good smart...
...Smart, Strong & Tough." At 4:30 and again at 5:30, Humphrey made motions toward leaving, but each time Khrushchev waved him back to his chair. At 7, dinner (beef, ham, wild fowl, etc.) was brought in, topped by a toast in Armenian brandy. At dinner's end, Humphrey made a forthright suggestion. "I agree," said Nikita Khrushchev, and the two tromped oft to a Kremlin lavatory, were soon back at the conference table. At 9, Anastas Mikoyan dropped by, and the talk returned to trade. At 9:30 it occurred to Humphrey that his wife might be worried...
...Administration, Lattimore asserted, is not even considering the possibility, for instance, that the people of Taiwan will choose to return to China rather than remain independent. John K. Fairbank '29, professor of History, commenting on the point raised by Lattimore, said the United States "would be smart to come out openly with a decision to accept the expression any time in the future of the people of Taiwan to join the mainland...
...patriarchs with offers of money-earning properties in Russia, gifts to monasteries, and free trips to Moscow. When Antioch Patriarch Alexandros III died last June, after a reign of 27 years, the Communists went to work to see that their man succeeded him. Their man: Syrian Archbishop Alexandros Ghea, smart, fiftyish, and educated in the Soviet Union...