Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mistaken Murder. Valachi quickly kissed Genovese back "to let him know I was smart and I would answer him in the same style-kill him too." Valachi was so frightened he asked prison guards to put him in solitary confinement. But as soon as he got out, Mafia Mobster John Dioguardia (Johnny Dio), who was in charge of the prison shower room, invited Valachi in to take a shower. Valachi, convinced he would be murdered there, refused. Panicky, he tried to "stay out of crowds" in the prison yard, finally grabbed a length of iron pipe lying conveniently...
...wide variety of makes, cuts, weaves, and patterns presents an enigma to the prospective buyer of a suit. As a result, he will often remain in a rut. Yet, with a little background, the uninitiated can differentiate quality products from inferior ones and can select clothes that are both smart and congenial...
...When he talks like that, Wallace sounds like an ordinary Alabama redneck. But he is no such thing-and the more's the pity, since he has become an international symbol of the demagogic segregationist in the Southern region of the U.S. Wallace is in fact a smart, capable lawyer who has in many ways been a first-rate Governor. Since he took office last January, he has pushed through sizable raises in teachers' salaries, begun a big school-construction program, successfully sponsored a $100 million bond issue for roads, cut his own executive department budget by better...
...Pavillion or the Colony. "I think I've been a reassuring influence in fashion," he says. "I don't want my clothes to make a woman look desperate for attention; I do want them to add to her chic and not make her look smarty smart...
...casket styles, Miss Mitford writes, is the patriotic theme represented by "the Valley Forge," once advertised in color in an undertaker's trade journal with some Early American cupboards and a portrait of George Washington. For "the bon vivant who dreams of rubbing shoulders with the international smart set, the gay dog who would risk all on a turn of the card, there is the 'Monaco' with 'Sea Mist Polish Finish, interior richly lined in 600 Aqua Supreme Cheney velvet, magnificently quilted and shirred, with matching jumbo bolster and coverlet...