Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fortunately, all three pitchers from last year's staff Bob Ward, Rufe Webb, and Jack Donelan--are back again. Ward looks "a little faster," according to McInnis. Webb, a southpaw, has good control, good form, and fair hitting ability. Donelan is smart, fast, and also has good control...
...suggest that General Wood would be smart to hire Artist Artzybasheff as colonel in charge of the packaging division...
...conference. The flashiest of Salazar's honor troops turned out for the guests. Lampposts gleamed with fresh paint. As a final measure of thoughtfulness the government clapped the city's 400 beggars into jail for the duration of the conference. But what helped most was some smart advance diplomacy...
...became a traveling salesman through the little towns of Texas, Kansas and Indian Territory, selling photo graphic portraits and frames to fit them. He soon bossed a sales crew of his own, and bought, at the age of 20, a flashy diamond ring ("I wish I was half as smart now as I thought I was then"). He drank champagne in San Francisco, broke up a light opera performance in Butte, Mont., wore boots and spurs in hotel dining rooms, and fired his six-shooter on New Year...
Carter is a smart, aggressive publisher, and knows better than to harbor any literary pretensions (by the widest estimate he has read no more than a dozen books in the last half century). He sees the promotion of Fort Worth as one of his major publishing duties, on the theory that whatever makes the city grow will, in time, make the Star-Telegram grow. It works. Friends estimate that at least one person out of four, in Fort Worth's current metropolitan population of 303,701, is there because of an industry, office or military installation which was coaxed...