Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Prison walls, locked gates and armed guards need not be barriers to the mind. The living proof of this is a group of convicts at Norfolk State Prison Colony who annually out-smart and out-talk top college debaters from all over New England...
...independent voter who cast her ballot for Eisenhower, I feel very strongly on the advisability of a Cabinet post for Stevenson (and not one of the sop positions, either). Such an act would be not only a smart political move on the part of the President elect, but also a great service to the country...
...affairs clearly required liaison between the outgoing and incoming Administrations, many an Eisenhower supporter was inclined to regard the Truman proposals with skepticism. Franklin Roosevelt's refusal to engage in joint planning with Herbert Hoover in the last interregnum between two U.S. Administrations has long been considered smart politics, since it tied Hoover's hands and permitted Roosevelt, after his inauguration, to give the impression that he alone had brought order out of chaos...
This week, after turning himself over to a smart lawyer who hustled him into a District of Columbia court, Louis Glick-field, frustrated both as player and" fixer, was free on $1,000 bail; he was preparing to fight extradition to Maryland, which has a special law covering bribery of athletes. Maximum penalty: a $5,000 fine and three years in prison...
...state is basking in the sunny prosperity given to its factories by defense contracts. Unemployment is non-existent. Furthermore, Stevenson has an appeal to the state's comparatively-high number of college graduates that Truman lacked. It's going to be tight in all three races, but the smart, long-odds bet is on a Democratic sweep...