Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...connected with the Murchison organization . . . I feel . . . you . . . overlooked the fact that Clint's original stake was made before the days of high income taxes, and for the past ten years his immense gains have been more from the effects of inflation than from oil income. Clint was smart enough, around 1939, to recognize the signs of coming inflation and bought anything on which he could borrow most of the purchase price . . . His equities were spread thin, and the banks could have closed him out at any time up to about 1945 . . . Clint Murchison gambled extremely heavy on inflation...
Some insisted that Tom Fool would have won at a mile or less; some picked the Dancer under any circumstances. "Tom Fool was a big, tough marine, a smart s.o.b. who would give it all to win," said one track veteran. "But the grey horse . . ." He paused. "He's a genius, that...
Wounded in Action. In Korea, Army Corporal Gib Landell tossed off a smart salute at a passing officer, threw his back out of joint, had to be evacuated to a field hospital...
This may have been a smart bit of early-stage campaigning by Kefauver, but there is no reason to think that it was effective. It is not likely that Ray Jenkins, having burst upon the national scene, will retreat to the courtrooms of East Tennessee, never to assault a network microphone again. Jenkins is a man with a natural flair for politics. In the lobbies and dining rooms of Washington he shakes hands, signs autographs, and pats children just as readily as does his old pal Estes. If he could arouse enough Tennesseans to believe that Kefauver has marched...
Author Thompson has the courage of his convictions. But before they reach the final, melodramatic pages, his readers may long for Graham Greener pastures: they must listen to page upon page of second-rate smart talk on the one hand and chummy religious matter on the other. The Dove with the Bough of Olive is a brave and interesting try, but it seems to prove that any author who attempts to mix the frivolities of Belgravia with the profundities of Heaven is in mortal danger of going straight to Hollywood...