Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senator Taft is as smart as he thinks he is, he must know that General Eisenhower can get a larger popular vote. If Senator Taft were as patriotic as he should be, he would withdraw in favor of Eisenhower, to make certain a Republican victory in November. Senator Taft should not be allowed to forget that hundreds of thousands of independents eager to vote for Eisenhower do not vote in Republican primaries...
...dress salon and stages a musical fashion show on the premises. Howard Keel sings and has romantic designs on Designer Kathryn Grayson; Ann Miller and Marge and Gower Champion do some fast stepping, and blonde Zsa Zsa Gabor just flounces around. When it is dressed up with songs and smart styles, Lovely to Look At has a champagne sparkle. At other times, it is as flat as dead soda...
...York Post's smart, stocky Editor James A. Wechsler, 36, serves up Fair-Dealing, "see here now!" editorials along with a leavening mixture of sex, sin and revelation. By now, the Post's formula for revelation has become pat: a continuous series of wordy but provocative sketches of favorite Post whipping boys, e.g., Senator McCarthy, Walter Winchell, Westbrook Pegler. When U.S.A. Confidential began making headlines and the bestseller lists, Wechsler spotted ideal subjects for his next serial scorcher: the book's authors, the New York Mirror's editor, Jack Lait, and its nightclub columnist, Lee Mortimer...
Theseus in the last analysis isn't much of a mouse. The explanation for his smart behavior lies in the relays, which move him around by means of a motor-driven magnet. They remember all his successful moves. So when he makes his second trip, the relays whisk him without an error along the correct path...
...such smart merchandising, Keating has built up a line of 2,000 products ranging from a 5? pie pan to a $39 set of stainless steel "Diamondware" table service. Last year his Ekco Products Co. sold 375,000 egg beaters, 10½ million kitchen knives, 2,500,000 rubber-ended bottle stoppers, 1.5 million pots & pans and 12 million can openers. Disguised under such brand names as A. & J., Flint and Ovenex, Ekco Products brought in a 1951 gross of $35 million...