Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Orpheum, Sheraton Hotels, and Trans-Canadian Airlines will pay for it under certain conditions. All you have to do is write twenty-five words or less on "why you want to go to Canada, land of Rose Marie." There are several ways to go about winning, but the smart contestant will immediately realize three things: Rose Marie is in thrilling new Cinemascope, it has a star-studded cast, and it is filmed in the fabulously beautiful outdoors of Canada...
...five times cited in dis patches, twice wounded, three times deco rated in the field), he is the only French man to hold one of the four top Euro pean commands in NATO. Tough and wiry, a born soldier and a patriot, he has a flair for fast horses, smart uniforms, brandy, and resounding candor. It was his candor and his refusal to curb it that proved Marshal Juin's undoing...
...Hamilton came from a family of physicians. His father, brother and cousins had made Hamilton one of the most respected names in Missouri medicine. Smart and engaging, Hugh Hamilton followed in the family tradition, prospered, and in 1950 took out, through Lloyd's of London, a $400,000 policy against injury to his deft surgeon's hands. The insurance was written in such a way that it also covered the loss of his other limbs...
...late Senator Robert Taft, the Federal Housing Bill proposed construction of 135,000 low cost units a year for six years. Senator Taft's party heirs either feel differently about the needs for low income housing, or share a mystical hope that private industry can handle them. And smart party politicians might argue that low income groups don't vote Republican anyhow...
Home Defense. In Napa, Calif., when city officials met to consider James Chadwick's request to be allowed to keep 100 racing pigeons in a residential zone, Councilman Joseph Greco declared: "Pigeons proved valuable during the last war . . . It wouldn't be smart to hold down such a constructive effort...