Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...therefore, ironical that Cohn did so much to bring about McCarthy's eventual downfall. The way it came about was that Cohn had a bosom buddy, G. David Schine, the wealthy, not-too-smart son of a hotel-chain owner. Cohn sponsored Schine as an unpaid McCarthy staff investigator. Together, the two went to Europe on a Keystone Cops binge, searching for Communism and mismanagement in U.S. Information Service offices abroad. Soon after their return, Schine made the mistake of getting drafted as a buck private into the U.S. Army. Cohn tried to crowbar the Army into granting Schine...
...smart-sounding place name is still a big favorite: Monterey, Biscayne, Park Lane. Pontiac will add the GTO-borrowed from Ferrari's GTO (Gran Turismo Omologato)-to a racing stable that at present includes the Bonneville, Grand Prix and Le Mans. American Motors' Rambler continues to chug along with its American, Classic and Ambassador models tagged according to price and polish...
...considered slightly gauche to put four epigraphs on your title page, and Carlos Baker, a Princeton University professor and literary critic who has been smart for a long time, tastefully begins his book with only two quotations, neither from Kierkegaard. But there are subtler sorts of title-page-manship, and Baker uses one of the most telling: the subtitle, or direction for use, of The Land of Rumbelow is A Fable in the Form of a Novel. Baker means to put the reader on notice that the events he describes are not to be taken only for themselves; they illustrate...
Next Case. The Council then took up South Africa, where 3,000,000 whites rule 11 million blacks under a system the government once termed apartheid but now prefers to call "separate development." Pressing the charge that white supremacy is "intolerable," External Affairs Minister John Karefa-Smart of Sierra Leone claimed that the U.N. has every right to intervene-"National barriers cannot legitimately shrink universal human rights...
...could fill 20 pages with accounts of incidents or beatings, manhandlings and incredible indignities which have been forced on whites and blacks whom the police have picked out. Northern liberals don't seem to realize, for how could they ever know, that police in Southern cities, particularly those with smart police chiefs like Pritchett, can do whatever they damn well please and get away with...