Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...check up on him, go after other sources, dig around a little, maybe develop a story. But look at that [TV] program: no embarrassing questions; a chance to tell the world why he is heaven's gift to diplomacy; a big audience; painless. He's smart. What does he want to talk to newspapermen...
...Detroit's traffic court, spelled it out in more technical terms at a National Safety Council meeting in Chicago last week: "The fellow who blasts his horn to bully his way through traffic, the fellow who wants to race you in a traffic-light getaway, and the smart-aleck who defies traffic regulations are selfish . . . and egocentric individuals...
...They won't allow it.' I said, 'Who's they?' She said, 'The school.' I said, 'What d'ye mean, the school? That's bricks and mortar; it can't talk.' She said, 'Eva looks smart in school rig.' I said, 'She didn't look so smart...
Sharing the rest of it are U.S. Tobacco Co.'s Encore, which expects to triple 1952's sales this year, Columbia Tobacco's du Maurier, now running 30% ahead of last year's showing, and Benson & Hedges' ("You're so smart to smoke...") Parliaments, oldest filter on the market, which, for the third consecutive year, expect to boost sales 40%. Darkest horse in the filter race is P. Lorillard's (Old Gold) Kent. Eased into the market in the last half of 1952, Kent, with a hefty ad budget, is going ahead...
...smart man," said Psychiatrist Menninger, "who recognizes that all of us are a little queer at times." He pointed out that 70% of the people who have to be fired are dismissed because "of their social incompetence-not because of their technical incompetence. In other words, they can't get along with people-and that is why we can't use them. Yet so many times, of course, they can be helped...