Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...documentary flavor, however, lends too little novelty to the story's rehash of familiar fiction; and for all its self-righteous airs, the movie does not practice what it preaches. The point of the action seems to be that a smart, ambitious telephone repairman (Edmond O'Brien) can cut himself in on the $8 billion if he applies his knowledge to the gambling racket. By hook, crook and electronics, Hero O'Brien works himself up to a high living standard, 36 changes of clothes and a love affair with another big shot's blue-blooded wife...
Thanking you gives me an excuse to reprimand you for a not too accurate statement. In your review [in the same issue] of Poems by Christopher Smart you say that "[Editor Robert] Brittain's efforts may rescue Smart from his long imprisonment in a literary footnote." It is true that Smart had to wait a long time to receive his proper praise (and appraisal) as a highly original poet. But, after almost two centuries of neglect, Smart has been discovered and rediscovered in the last dozen years. I refer, for example, to the ten pages devoted...
Stalin's Russia can move forward, sideways or backwards. One smart Russian move might be an offer of a "general" settlement in which the Communists would move back of the 38th parallel in Korea, and the U.S. would recognize Communist China and accept Mao Tse-tung's nominee for the United Nations. That would be tantamount to handing Asia over to Communism...
...before the final, the reconditioned Patty went through a four-hour doubles match, longest in Wimbledon history (one set went to 31-29). Patty looked like a limp rag afterward, and for the singles the smart money was on wiry, 22-year-old Sedgman, whose austere training habits include calisthenics and jogging around Wimbledon Common. Patty declined an invitation to a party at a West End nightclub...
Together, L.A.I.'s three top executives quickly organized a number of routes in Italy, bought 16 U.S. war-surplus DC-35, staffed them with able pilots and smart American-style hostesses, lured passengers by a timeclock precision of schedules. In its first year of operation, L.A.I, carried 53,000 passengers; last year, with routes extended through the Mediterranean area (Greece, Turkey, Egypt, Israel, Spain), it carried 98,000, to become Italy's biggest airline. It also piled up a remarkable safety record: more than 5,000,000 miles without a serious accident...