Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...without the depth of experience or the skill of their forerunners; they have, so to speak, the ears and the appetite of the bloodhound, without the nose. Meanwhile, a new kind of pro has been growing in the shadow of the New and Fair Deals. He is usually a smart lawyer who learns his way around the Washington bureaucratic labyrinth and who can, from an obscure post, exercise more power than many an old-style boss. These men, known admiringly as "operators" in Washington, are usually both able and honest, although the Washington experience frequently pays off in subsequent...
...championing the underdog. In 1952, they hope to do it again. But things have changed: now the villagers as well as the rich get soaked by taxes, and Maid Marian's mink coats have caused comment in the greenwood. There is a feeling that Robin has not been smart about the Communists, and Little John Acheson's foreign policy has caused fear for the future. Above all, Herbert Hoover is not Sheriff of Nottingham this year...
...Sill, priest of the Protestant Episcopal Order of the Holy Cross, fiddled till midnight so that his boys and their girls could dance to proper music. From the raised band platform he could also keep an eye on student manners. Any Kent boy who departed from propriety got a smart rap with the master's fiddle bow as he danced...
...duck that sonofabitch Kefauver?' They think he's a Boy Scout, but they know he's got vote appeal . . . We will point out that the Republicans slapped down their machine bosses, and the Democrats have to reject boss rule too. The bosses in our party are smart enough to see that and get aboard...
...campaigned around the state shaking hands, slapping backs, complimenting husbands on their wives' beauty, and asking for a third term. His key line: "If you have a problem, write to me." Reporters noticed, however, that Langer did not kiss babies. An admirer explained: "Old Bill, he's smart. He knows this is the antiseptic age." Traveling with him was Reporter Alden MacLachlan of Bismarck, representing ten A.P. newspapers. Langer always introduced him as "the reporter from the Fargo Forum [an anti-Langer paper] who follows me around to write lies about me . . . Stand up and let them...