Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...baseball's best, Ted Williams, comes back from the Marines, some smart boys may pick the Red Sex. Which is of course nice sentiment and due a returning war here, but lacking in reality because you need pitchers in the modern version of the game...
...seems to be sharply limited. Many of the people who voted for him openly voiced their reservations. Said one last week: "We know Joe is no saint. We know that some of the methods he uses aren't too good. We know that he isn't too smart sometimes. But we're convinced that where there's smoke there's fire. And Joe has done an awful lot to point out where there's smoke billowing up. There have been Reds in Government, and Joe has been the only man to do anything about...
...What smart labor leaders-like C.I.O. State President Gus Scholle and Walter Reuther-really want out of political control is not patronage, because they don't want to lose their active labor leaders to politics. The P.A.C. is supported by contributions of its members, and neither needs, nor wants, political kickbacks. Nor do the labor leaders want political publicity. They have learned the hard way (e.g., in Detroit's mayoralty campaign) that the C.I.O.'s open endorsement can be the kiss of death. During the 1950 campaign, P.A.C. workers deliberately identified themselves simply as "Democrats," even...
...named in honor of an early swimmer: Io, daughter of the river god Inachos. Io, a looker, dallied with Zeus, who took the precaution-unavailable to other philandering husbands-of changing her into a heifer whenever his wife hove in sight. But Hera (Mrs. Zeus) was a shade too smart for him. One day she archly asked her husband to give her the heifer as a pet. To get out of the fix, poor Io galloped down over the plains of Illyria, across the Balkan Mountains and swam the Bosporus. She kept going over land & sea until she reached...
...invasion of New York and New Jersey last week, Adlai Stevenson once again displayed his talent for effective oratory. He also proved himself a smart campaign quarterback who mixes his plays astutely...