Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...capitals from Oslo to Singapore, Russian envoys, suddenly polite, have been passing out caviar and cognac, lunching Western newsmen, offering to provide Soviet orchestras for their hosts' enlightenment. Smart-suited Soviet buyers are shopping everywhere, touting a bottomless ^market (of 660 million Russians and Chinese) for the surplus commodities of Western farms and factories. The Communists want cotton, wool, fats, steel and rubber-and the payment they offer is attractive: gold, timber, even strategic materials...
...President Eisenhower's press conference, a reporter pointed out that some Republicans in Congress consider his farm program politically unfeasible. The President's response showed the depth of his conviction: he agreed that his program might not be smart politically, but he was sure that it was right. His Administration has studied the problem long and carefully, is convinced that the old plan is unworkable, believes that the proposed program is the best way to maintain a prosperous, stable agriculture...
Only a short stroll from the smart shops of famed Piazza di Spagna begins Via Margutta, one of Rome's most remarkable streets. It is shabby, narrow, and lined by drab, ocher-colored buildings. Not until a visitor pushes through any of a dozen open archways into a maze of courtyards, stone stairs and quiet, hidden gardens, is the secret of the street revealed. For here live some of Italy's most colorful artists, their names often scrawled on rickety doors. Via Margutta has been the Roman artists' quarter since the 16th century Today, in the center...
...Gimbels" ads made her the best-known woman in U.S. retail advertising, resigned as advertising director of Manhattan's Gimbels department store (as of April 1). Wisconsin-born Bernice Fitz-Gibbon came to New York as a copywriter for Macy's, where she coined "It's smart to be thrifty," went to Wanamaker's before she joined Gimbels...
...mood of gentle nostalgia after last year's World Series had been stowed away in the record books. "I guess a kid's crazy not to be serious about it when he's drawing down $20,000 or $30,000 a year, and any smart-aleck gag you try may be your last. But what's life without a laugh...