Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next day Champion Moore made a modest suggestion: he thought he had earned a crack at Rocky Marciano and a heavyweight purse. In the back room of boxing, the smart-money boys disagreed. Archie, they argued, like most stylists, was too clean and clever a fighter to make for drama and draw a big gate. But he could hit the road again and take on Joey Maxim, another old friend-in Omaha...
...phrases ... It would have been thoroughly in keeping if Jane had prefaced her predication with "Let's face it." It's surprising that a modern girl would omit that devastating, penetrating philosophy. Also, a modern girl could have well been expected to comment: "He's a Smart Cookie...
Beside this almost massive performance, the others, even though good, seem a little small. Rod Steiger, as the brother, is, to the life, the kind of Irish bright boy who can get a little too smart for himself. Eva Marie Saint is quite right, too, in her convent-kept freshness, as the kind of narrow little good girl the bad boys long to be redeemed by. Karl Maiden is bulldoggish as the priest, but hardly conveys the earthy sagacity of the living models the part was drawn from...
...Smart Subaltern. Jacobo (pronounced Ha-coe-boe) Arbenz was born in Quezaltenango in 1913 of a Ladino mother and a moody Swiss immigrant druggist who failed in business, walked out on his family and later killed himself. Another Swiss in the town intervened with General Jorge Ubico, the country's all-powerful ruler, to get the blond youth a scholarship at the national military school. Quickwitted and lithely muscular, Arbenz played polo and boxed while pulling down the highest grades in the academy's history. But when school triumphs were over, he was just another impoverished subaltern with...
Hurley was too smart to let the ring-wise reporters see much more than the tag end of a rubdown. Matthews turned out to be a tough subject to interview. "Do you do any reading, Harry?" asked one polite Briton. "I never did find a story interesting enough to hold me down," answered Harry amiably. He headed for the door. "Aren't you going to put on a tie?" asked the newsman. Harry clutched at his collar. "I thought...