Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last month Robert Stewart, 21, emerged from a grocery and was challenged by two cops. "Hey, come here," commanded one, grabbing his arm. "Get yourself off this corner right now." When Stewart replied that he was there to buy canned milk, the cop spat, "Don't go getting smart." Stewart and eight witnesses claim that he was grappled into the squad car and pounded with night stick, fist and flashlight. Subsequent photos show Stewart's nose broken, eyes swollen nearly shut on a puffy face, the back of his head cratered by deep open wounds. Stewart received...
...right if it's a white lie," and TV viewers see a single-handed super white honkie who swings from trees for miles, fights the jungle's beasts for hours, can swim for miles, run at top speed for miles and still have enough energy left to out smart, out hunt and even defeat whole tribes of natives. And you, Oh God, even you are pictured across the country by the Whites as having blond hair, blue eyes and white skin. You wear a white robe with white wings and you have white angels who wear white robes with white...
...physician and no machine can forecast with certainty whether a man will have a heart attack, or when. Until such prevision becomes possible, doctors must rely heavily on the electrocardiograph, which, although not much of a predictor, is a smart detective. It can usually reveal whether a heart has been damaged, and with these clues the cardiologist can prescribe care and treatment for patients who seem to run the greatest risks of heart attacks. Yet the electrocardiograph has identified only a fraction of the nation's ailing hearts...
...finance urban redevelopment. Rather, they want precisely what Lyndon Johnson has not given them--a kind of rhetorical coherence, a feeling that if the problems are tough, at last someone has a decent idea of how to start dealing with them. Americans--students and black militants aside--are too smart to demand immediate solutions. They merely want something said and done that holds promise and makes sense...
...Maxwell House coffee. Jack Benny promotes Texaco gasoline. George Burns puffs El Producto cigars. Sometimes the process is reversible. Actress Barbara Feldon was a sexy slink of a salesgirl for Top Brass hairdressing ("Sic 'em, tiger") before she went big on legit TV as co-star of Get Smart! Pam Austin, the original Dodge girl, is now a member of the cast of Rowan and Martin's Laugh...