Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boom, the Harvard Alumni Association chose as its president financial magnate J. Pierpont Morgan, symbolizing in a way what was often attacked as the American "worship of business." Hotels bought full page ads in the Crimson, advertising their "exclusive Fall Dansants," warning the wavering sophomore that "the smart folk will attend," or that "you'll find the best crowd in the college there." Boston was the center of Harvard social life, and for many this social life was the center of Harvard...
...Moscow to begin preparations for a filmed "free" exchange between Khrushchev and several U.S. correspondents in Moscow to be broadcast over 92 CBS TV stations and about 150 radio stations on Sunday, June 2. To avoid the loss of time in translation, Face the Nation's smart and alert Producer Ted Ayers plans to make use of a simultaneous-translation technique like that of the U.N. If Communist Khrushchev does not invoke an eleventh-hour veto, CBS will have achieved a major beat and also one of those political rarities, a kept Kremlin agreement...
...therapist in a London hospital, traveled to and from work on the underground. Mayfair, which had seen its share of foreign princesses, liked but was not dazzled by shy, willowy, fresh-faced Margaretha. "She was a nice person-very agreeable always, you know-but not tremendously smart in her clothes or anything like that," said one acquaintance...
...discovered, prohibits a pitcher from spitting on his glove or on the ball; it prevents him from rubbing the ball on his clothing or defacing it in any way. But there is no edict against spitting on the fingers and then drying them off. Pontificated Giles: "Burdette was using smart psychology." He kept right on using it against the Redlegs last week while he beat them, 5 to 4, for the ninth straight time. Whenever he was in trouble he went to his mouth, careless of a Cincinnati slow-motion movie camera that was recording every pitch...
...other side, the varsity displayed smart and aggressive tactics at West Point, stealing five bases (season's total: 24), including a double steal in the top of the sixth that put captain John Simourian in position to score on Matt Botsford's single...