Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...because he had failed to name an envoy to the Vatican. But if Protestant protests warm up, many votes might be lost to Truman in the shaky South or in critical Midwest farm areas. If politics was Truman's motive, it was hard to see how it was smart politics...
...Arabs, defying the U.N. partition of Palestine, invaded Israel . . . The Arab propaganda machine bid Palestinian Arabs to leave their homes . . . Helping this situation along was the fact that the British pulled their garrisons out of Haifa and Jaffa a month before the end of the mandate . . . Arabs who were smart enough not to flee from Israel are getting along much better than their fellowmen who fled at Arab instigation-and considerably better than Jews unfortunate enough to still be in Arab countries...
...Smart Boy. Joseph Raymond McCarthy, who always signs himself plain Joe McCarthy these days, was born on a farm in Grand Chute, a few miles north of Appleton. One of seven children, he quit school early, parlayed 50 chickens into a flock of 10,000, but lost nearly all of them one winter when he came down with pneumonia and turned over his flock to some friends. At 18 he wangled a job as manager of a grocery store in nearby Manawa...
...landlady, Mrs. Osterloth, nagged at him to go back to school. "You're smart, McCarthy, you're smart," she insisted. Joe went back. With typically furious energy he signed up for 16 subjects, and finished the four-year high-school course in one year...
...smart and well-disciplined plague of bedbugs has struck the University, it was reported last night. Every Sunday night for the past three weeks certain insects of an undetermined nature have been biting an inhabitant of Hastings Hall during his sleep. Although the exact species is unknown, scientists studying the bites last night stated that they had reason to believe that the attackers were of the bedbug order...