Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...openers, Brown, Cornell and Barnard motioned to stay home altogether. They were the smart ones, for the schools that opted to brave Mother Nature got more than they bargained for. "We felt we had to come," said Princeton swim coach Janie Tyler. "It's just that once we did, we had to walk to the Hyatt from Central Square with our luggage because no taxis would pick...
...early to tell whether it was smart strategy, but New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller last week was clearly back in the lists as an active presidential candidate. He had never withdrawn unequivocally, but when he said last month that he preferred not to campaign for the nomination, a lot of people got the impression that he was out of the race for good. In the changed game that ensued after President Johnson's rejection of a second term, Rocky was still playing his hand cagily. Nonetheless, he was unmistakably doing-if not saying-the things Americans traditionally...
...Angeles in 1960. There were those who thought he wanted the nomination for himself; though he vigorously denied it, he was credited with having said that he deserved to be President because "I am twice as liberal as Humphrey, twice as Catholic as Kennedy and twice as smart as [Senator Stuart] Symington." But at the convention, McCarthy, no fan either of the Kennedys, whom he accused of "lavishness and ruthlessness" in the primaries, or of Lyndon Johnson, rose to nominate a man who had no chance at all to win the nomination: Adlai E. Stevenson. "Do not reject this...
...waiter and my role was somewhere between the kitchen and, and...I was young enough so as not to be identified with the white group up front and my status on the job was low enough so I could talk to the people in the back and I was smart enough so I got to be friends with the manager. In effect, I got to observe a microcosm of American society...
During lunch break, since our classes were made up according to ability, I always hung around with the smart kids, but since the smarter kinds always tended to be middle class, there was only partial identification with the group. We had a common language, but different values. The group I belonged to was more of a debating society than a friendship group...