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Word: smarted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week, Berlin's Western sector had five months' supply of coal on hand and a six months' supply of grain and cereals. Along the Kurfürstendamm, against the grey bomb rubble, sidewalk cafes with flower-decked tables and shops with smart new chromium & glass fronts looked valiantly hopeful. But by & large, Berlin's economy was not healthy. It still had 294,000 jobless, a whopping 600 million-mark annual budgetary deficit. West Berlin was getting little aid from the Bonn government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Last Call for Europe | 9/18/1950 | See Source »

...good many people in Hainesville thought they knew who was in the gang that killed Nathan Hamilton's pretty wife and three other Negroes. But smart people weren't saying. The Aycock boys and Bilsy Shoup were put on trial for "intimidating a Federal witness"-they had beaten up a Negro who saw them cleaning their guns. But Bilsy and the Aycocks pleaded self-defense, and they were acquitted, as everyone had known they would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Intrusion in the Dust | 9/11/1950 | See Source »

Like many another smart young man who followed the Communist line, sharp-eyed, sharply dressed Attorney Lee Pressman did very well for a long time. Har-vardman Pressman launched his leftward-turning 'career in Henry Wallace's AAA back in 1933, ended up as chief counsel of the C.I.O. He held the post for twelve years. But though he was a skilled labor lawyer, his fellow-traveling finally became too much for Phil Murray; 2½ years ago Murray tearfully threw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: The Road Back | 9/4/1950 | See Source »

...Most smarties know very few women. It is not smart to know women undergraduates, and it is unheard of to have a girlfriend, except in London. The very smartest, of course, know no women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Smarties | 8/28/1950 | See Source »

...virtually impossible to obtain smart food in Oxford, most smarties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Smarties | 8/28/1950 | See Source »

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