Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...answer to these accusations Rafael Demos, Alfred Professor of Natural Religion, stated that Mills' opinion that the average professor's culture is typically narrow was "too general a statement; professors are of all kinds." He added that this was a "smart-aleck comment...
Representative Patrick F. Plunkett, who presented the bill in McCarthy's absence, agreed to change the bill partly, but demanded some legislation, declaring: "The Communists are smart enough to concentrate their efforts against the youth in our colleges...
This was a "fixed" maneuver, with lines of advance marked out for the aggressor, and the green-shirted Constabulary thought it was all too easy. "Not even any running around at night, except small patrols," complained a belligerent rifleman. "And the guys against us aren't too smart. Why, we had to wake up some ... of the 4th Division to capture them. Found them in their sacks...
...politeness. Interservice etiquette bothers him not at all. The soldiers at Makin were "miserably slow," and their fellows from the same division (the 27th) at Eniwetok were "all right but their training and leadership alike were poor." On the other hand, the 7th Division profited from Attu and was smart in the Marshalls...
...American In Paris (MGM) is a grand show-a brilliant combination of Hollywood's opulence and technical wizardry with the kind of taste and creativeness that most high-budgeted musicals notoriously lack. The Technicolorful result is smart, dazzling, genuinely gay and romantic, and as hard to resist as its George Gershwin score...