Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Don Arturo raised his hand. "Well done, Viscianesi," he said. "We have all the stone we need." The new orphanage was under way, the Viscianesi were quietly pleased, and the mayor was happy to be mayor of such a smart town. "If more people used their heads this way," he said in praise of Don Arturo, "far more would be accomplished in the world. And there would be less talk...
...Today, smart cowmen are working with scientists' precision to put together the best beef animal. In the search for a hardy animal that can convert the least feed into the most beef in the least time, cattlemen intermix genetic strains, carefully card-indexing the good and bad points of the progeny, unceasingly experiment with new vaccines and antibiotics. The competition for prize bulls has become fantastic; one Texas breeder paid $100,000 for a one-third interest in an Aberdeen-Angus bull, figured the money well spent since the bull's first two offspring sold...
Today the varsity will need the same two factors, capitalizing on opponents' mistakes and playing smart, sharp, tight ball, in order to defeat another better-hitting Princeton team...
Brooklyn College's Professor Harry Slochower was an evasive, smart-aleck witness before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee. When Slochower, teacher of German and literature and an authority on Thomas Mann, appeared before the subcommittee in 1952, he was asked, for example, if he could identify any members of the Communist Party. Retorted Slochower: "I am sure Joe Stalin is a member." Slochower invoked the Fifth Amendment three times in refusing to say whether he had been a Communist in 1940 and 1941. He was fired by Brooklyn College under a New York City charter provision that requires automatic...
...told them about my brother and said we could answer together. Then I swept my arms wide and said we'd take on all the categories." Bill confesses: "My brother is brighter than I am, and he didn't think my little idea was as smart as I did. But a few days later they called. There was no advance preparation at all. They just stuck us out there on the show, and we ran up $8,000 before we knew what was happening...