Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...parliamentary by-election last week, the question was submitted to the voters of Holborn and St. Pancras, a London constituency ranging from smart residential streets to slums. The Socialists won Holborn narrowly in 1951. Holborn, said Tory Chairman Lord Woolton, "is a sort of political barometer...
Agents Inside. The plan was worthy of the Moscow-trained coup d'état experts who prepared it, but for one fatal flaw: Major General Farhat Dadsetan, Teheran's smart military governor, knew all about it from his secret agents in the Resistance. He summoned his commanders, told them to avoid gunfire if possible, so as to deny the Reds martyrdom. But if they had to shoot, the troops were to shoot to kill...
...incubation period is now over for one of these men. Last week, Francis J. McNamara was elected president of the union by an overwhelming majority. The janitor of Weld Hall, McNamara is calm, cautious, close-mouthed. He is a smart man and a strong man. But his strength seems a different kind than that of Mulvihill...
...slogan in Soviet Russia is "Bring On the Consumer Goods." Ever since Premier Georgy Malenkov passed the word, with his talk of "smart clothes and elegant footwear" (TIME, Aug. 17), the vast engines of Soviet propaganda have been at work grinding out the tidings of a fuller and happier life for the citizens. Day after day, Pravda and Radio Moscow paint glittering pictures of a land of milk and honey, teeming with TV sets and People's cars. The new day will dawn, says Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan, some time...
...knows that this shirt is the most popular style on the campus today. It's the smart white 'Button-Down...