Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what came afterward for several Negro sharecroppers was that they could not find white buyers for their produce; in Humphreys County. Miss. Negro businessman registrants found that they could not get credit. In Calhoun County, S.C. any Negro who tries to get a registration certificate is called a "smart" Negro, and Calhoun County encourages smart Negroes to migrate...
...horseback with bowler hats and shotguns. Others (including Author Fleming) were organized into guerrilla bands with underground hideouts like "the Lost Boys' subterranean home in the second act of Peter Pan", with the object of harassing an invading army. The General Staff puckishly referred to this as "scallywagging." Smart shops advertised that beneath their millinery could be found lightweight steel caps. By German "black" radio, the British heard that the Germans had a "fog-pill" by which parachutists would float down in the semblance of a small cloud. Actually, at the time, Hitler's Chiefs of Staff were...
Cultivated like a hothouse orchid by Mother, Joanne was discovered by a smart young pressagent named Ted Howard. In Joanne, he saw another Brenda Frazier, fabled (later fate-buffeted) glamor debutante of the '30s. He taught Joanne to mingle with the right people in the right places-the Stork Club, El Morocco ,"21." She was a LIFE cover girl; the tabloids called her "the 1948 season's golden girl." Soon all the dreams came true: Joanne became engaged (after four proposals) to lanky British Millionheir Sportsman Robert Sweeny, 37, California-born wartime R.A.F. hero, onetime (1937) British amateur...
Some of the talent, like Norman Chandler's wife Buffie, is home-grown and thrives on achievement. Trim and smart (dresses by Dior and Balenciaga) at 56, Buffie Chandler first dived energetically into public life in 1935 as a volunteer at the Los Angeles Children's Hospital, inevitably became a trustee. Inevitably, too, she became a regent at the University of California, almost singlehanded rescued the foundering Hollywood Bowl concerts, collected civic committee chairmanships like baubles on a charm bracelet. It was she, says her husband, who steered the Times into its long war on the great...
...results of effort and ability. Instead of saying two and two is four, he gives a player a problem and lets him figure it out. That way it's lasting. It's often said that the dumbest thing you can do in baseball is to get 'smart,' but Birdie makes you think. He makes it interesting because you get interested in yourself. It's like a kid learning to swim. First a few strokes, then courage. Then he realizes he has the ability to stay above water. First thing you know, he's going...