Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Author Crompton has practically nothing but praise for the hunting, or solitary, wasps. They are smart, pertinacious, utterly fearless. Shooting down flies, beetles, hoppers, caterpillars, they work for mankind. It is their thieving relations, the so-called "social" wasps, says Crompton, that have given the family such a bad name. In a righteously separate chapter on these bad actors, he reads an indictment against the yellow jackets that terrorize the summer terrace, filch from jam jars and deliver powerful stings that hurt humans for a week. The hunting wasps, says Crompton, are not to be smeared with guilt of association...
...Robert Cutter, president of Cutter Laboratories of Berkeley, Calif., wrote in his annual report to stockholders: "We are up to our ears in the Salk poliomyelitis vaccine production. Around the middle of the year you are either going to look on this decision as being very dumb or very smart, depending on how the poliomyelitis vaccine turns out." Last week, as a result of the Salk vaccine, the company was up to its ears in the most unfavorable corporation publicity in recent years. More and more medical men were asking for a re-examination of Salk vaccine production techniques...
...spell his name. Today, this Nepal-born mountaineer is a sort of Asian Lindbergh, hailed by millions in the East as a heroic symbol of their true capabilities, and worshiped by many as the Lord Buddha reincarnated. He owns a race horse and receives the public at a smart new house on a hillside in Darjeeling, India. For the ghosting of an autobiography he cannot read he commands the services of one of the most practiced and high-priced writers in the mountaineering business. James Ramsey Ullman (The White Tower, The Age of Mountaineering) has filled Tenzing's book...
...Fencing was neither part of an officer's drill nor his pastime. However, it really does not matter whether Zhukov fenced those Prussian officers in or out .. . Shaven-headed, monocles, swashbuckling, heel-clicking, the familiar good old clichés . . . the Erich von Stroheim type created by those smart gentlemen in Hollywood...
...symposium will be: Dr. Joseph C. Aub, professor of Research Medicine, "An Eider Statesman's View on Research in Medicine;" Dr. Robert E. Gross, professor of Child Surgery, "Surgery for Atrial Septal Defects;" Dr. John F. Enders, associate professor of Bacteriology and Immunology, "How to Pick a Smart Associate;" Dr. Thomas H. Weller, professor of Tropical Health, "Some of my Viral Friends," and Dr. Joseph A. Garland, Editor, New England Journal of Medicine, "Some Accessory Factors in Medical Education...