Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wonderful achievements of his own civilization . . . takes them as given, feels no personal responsibility for the society which has made them possible. He expects to use and exploit them. He prides himself on being the average man. If he admires anything outside himself, it is the 'smart operator,' the getter-by, the fixer...
...division, where there is more moneymaking competition. Last week, forced to make a title defense, Williams picked out a likely pushover named Jimmy Carter (who had lost two of his three 1950 fights), then set about shedding some 15 lbs. of surplus weight. Ike, normally known as a smart operator, made two mistakes: 1) the extra weight that came with easy pickings and age (27) was not so surplus, and 2) Carter was no pushover...
...PHYLLIS, in the hope that one day God's glorious gift of sight may be restored to her," which made the reviewers feel it would be rude to pan the book. (They did not know that Phyllis was the author's 96-year-old great-grandmother.) Smart writership includes the use of "O.K.-words," e.g., diathesis, mystique, and classique, and deference to O.K. fellow writers, meaning chiefly Kafka and Rilke (who, "it is believed . . . will still be absolutely O.K. for another five years"). This practice is known as "Rilking...
...that Bold could have had a better ride when he lost to Alerted by a neck in the Preakness Prep earlier in the week; and 3) the fact that Bold had never run a bad race (three firsts and two seconds in five starts). As it turned out, the smart money had the situation cased just right...
...Paris, Sir Charles Mendl, 79, whose late wife, Elsie de Wolfe Mendl, ruled the international smart set with a queenly hand, announced that he had wooed and won a 35-year-old Parisian brunette, Mme. Yvonne Riley. The secret of his success? "Young men talk too much about themselves. Old men don't, or shouldn't. I let women talk about themselves, and they love...