Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Czech officials snapped like kindling under the purge ax. After arresting former Foreign Minister Clementis as a "spy," Czechoslovakia's Red bosses went after his appointees. The Czech ambassador to India, Bohuslav Kratochvil, refused to go home, instead chose freedom in Britain (TIME, March 12). Less smart were three of his colleagues. When called to Prague for "consultation," they obeyed, and were promptly shunted to minor jobs. The three...
...were getting a police court managing editor," he later admitted.) But Reese was a bedrock newsman, who had started out at $8 a week on the Chief in home-town Hobart, Mo., worked on a handful of other papers before he joined the P-D in 1913. He was smart enough to capitalize on talents far different from Bovard...
When Commodore Vanderbilt, a smart railroad buccaneer himself, got a court injunction against the unholy three, they scooped $6,000,000 in cash out of the Erie treasury, scuttled across the Hudson to Jersey City. To keep Vanderbilt at bay, Fisk mounted three 12-lb. cannon on the docks outside the Erie's transplanted headquarters, donned an admiral's uniform to stage-dress his defiance. Meanwhile, foxy Jay Gould bribed the New York state legislature with $1,000,000 to legalize the fraudulent stock certificates...
...January she was signed for appearances on Du Mont's TV show, Once Upon a Tune. Last week she opened a four-week run in a smart East Side Manhattan nightclub, is nightly tearing the heart out of the old Gershwin and Rodgers & Hart tunes that have always been her favorites, e.g., Glad to Be Unhappy, Manhattan, and I've Got a Crush...
...little man from Toledo breasts the big winds blandly, a smile on his face and an endless stream of wisecracks, wise sayings and smart answers on his lips. He arrived in Washington with a typical quip...