Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Spare the Teacher. Once in a great while, Charles finds, a teacher did crop up as a sort of hero. Such a one was Edward Eggleston's Hoosier Schoolmaster ("He's powerful smart, is the master . . ."). But these rare exceptions* have never been enough to brighten teacher's reputation...
...ship, the crew-cut kid with the square chin was a walking encyclopedia of Navy history, engagements and ships. In dining hall, when first classmen at his table fired questions at him, Sherman always knew the answers- and often in more detail than his seniors. "You're too smart; get under the table," he was ordered, and there he sat, without dinner, taking his hazing. The hazers, rougher than they are these days, sought him out in barracks. They made him stand for an hour at attention holding a heavy book extended in one hand. On cold nights...
After Hearst fired Johnson as abruptly as he had hired him (one guess: Hearstling Louella Parsons thought him too smart for her own good), Skinny signed up with N.E.A. Skinny knew that he was no match for the catty, gossipy coverage of Hollywood's boudoirs, salons and saloons by Columnists Parsons and Hedda Hopper. Instead, he started covering Hollywood like any good, workaday reporter, still makes a daily round of the studios. Explains Johnson: "Hollywood is a City Hall beat, with bosoms...
Author Willingham went on to have an adolescent's daydream. Geraldine Brad-show, his second novel, is a 415-page, grab-by-grab description of how a smart bellhop tries to seduce a dumb-Dora elevator girl. It takes time: boy gets girl in bed on page 141; but girl is still standing off boy on page 414. The Willingham method is, of course, one way to keep a reader's attention. Nonetheless,the author sometimes seems hard put to fill space: "You come by here around six. All right...
...first year. They also agreed that their wages should be adjusted up or down each quarter to compensate for sizable movements of the Bureau of Labor Statistics' "cost-of-living" index. For a while, it looked as if the union had played it smart: three months after the contract was signed, it got a cost-of-living boost of 3? an hour. But after that, the autoworkers had to take two pay cuts totaling 3? an hour (although they also got an equal increase last year under the automatic "improvement factor"). With each pay reduction, G.M. wisely made small...