Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this country as long as I earn it legally." Said the union official: "You will just pick up your tools and get the hell back to Wilkes-Barre, where you belong." Snapped Pozusek: "Look, mister, I am not looking for trouble. I don't pretend to be smart or tough, and I am only going to tell you one thing-that I am a nervous type, and don't come here and start trouble for me, because somebody is going to get hurt." Said the unionist: "Trouble? You don't know the first damn thing about trouble...
...spread it on, and who is all for rushing the defendant to the chair so that he can hurry off to a seat of his own-at the evening ball game. Eight (Henry Fonda) is a mild-mannered, intelligent architect. Nine (Joseph Sweeney) is a cranky old pensioner, but smart. Ten (Ed Begley) runs a string of garages and spits like a battery syringe whenever the subject of race comes up. Twelve (Robert Webber) is an adman who can't distinguish the truth from a slogan...
Arts men found stripteases, blue jeans, jukeboxes, cowboy suits, psychiatrists, and thousands of pinball machines. "We went for a walk in the streets, and we heard a new vocabulary: allergiques, rilaxe, sexy, nioulouk, pineups, star, besseller, vampe, manager, fans, cover gueurl, swing, smart, has-bine, and that someone had a djob." They talked to businessmen and farmers, scientists and artists. Their conclusions: French industry, science and agriculture could do with more Americanization. As for the rest-there will always be a France...
...price on her," Lawyer Paul Moore once said of his proud mare Seaton Pippin, "some damn fool will buy her." Some smart horsemen tried. But Mr. & Mrs. Moore just smiled at offers that went as high as $50,000. Men who knew thoroughbreds all agreed that Pippin was the finest hackney horse that ever lived...
...including $1,390,000 from the sale of fixed assets and tax credits) in the first nine months of 1956 v. only $1,940,000 for all of 1955. To buy control of Fairbanks, Morse with a total $35 million, insists Silberstein, "is what I call a smart investment. The company is sound, with excellent growth possibilities. But it is terribly mismanaged. When we move in, we will put it on its feet...