Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when a self-assured little girl came forward from her desk, and in a firm, quiet voice told the teacher she might as well go right ahead and inscribe the Bible. It ought to be inscribed to Oveta Culp. Pig-tailed Oveta Culp wasn't being brash or smart-alecky ; she knew she was the best speller, and was merely stating what she regarded as inevitable. At term's end, Oveta won the Bible...
...busy for the flapperish goings-on of the day. Old Ike Culp took to carrying a long-bladed, switchback knife in his pocket, ostensibly to pare his nails, but word got around the legislature that he intended to use it on any young man who attempted to get smart around Oveta...
Petri soon showed a shrewd eye for a smart deal. In 1949, he bought up the big Mission Bell winery in the San Joaquin Valley for $3,250,000, thereby doubled Petri's storage capacity to 20 million gals. He also figured that it was more profitable to distribute wine than to grow and crush grapes. So in 1951 he helped organize 300 small-and medium-size San Joaquin growers into the Allied Grape Growers, Inc., a cooperative to which he sold all his wineries in the valley. In return, Petri got exclusive marketing rights to Allied...
Wineman's Choice. Last week, after a frost in the San Joaquin Valley nipped vines and sent the price of sweet wine in bulk up to 37½? a gal. (from a low of 32½?), many a vintner thought Petri had made a smart buy. To swing the deal for Italian Swiss Colony, he had borrowed from the Bank of America. That the bank was willing to plunge into the precarious winemaking business was a pat on the back for Petri...
Meanwhile, his teammates were taking full advantage of three hits, Middle fielding lapses, and smart base-running...