Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sweet Bird of Youth. Tennessee Williams' so-soporific play becomes a fast, smart, squalid movie melodrama that offers its customers three of the year's top film performances, by Paul Newman, Geraldine Page and Ed Begley...
...race day, as 15 sleek thoroughbreds paraded to the post, all eyes were on Ridan. His biggest competition, the early favorite Sir Gaylord, was out of the race -he had pulled up lame the day before-and the smart money figured Ridan at 2 to 1. Breaking perfectly, the horses pounded around the fading arc of the clubhouse turn, fought for position on the rail. As they swept into the back stretch, Hartack might have permitted himself a grim smile. Up ahead, Ridan refused to obey the commands of Jockey Manuel Ycaza and spurted into a three-length lead. Ycaza...
After the first three hitters in the third inning also singled off Yarbro's tempting offerings, Coach Norm Shepard made the long walk to the mound and emotioned for Dick Garibaldi to take over on the hill. It was a very smart move, since Garibaldi, a right handed fireball pitcher who usually needs warm weather to work effectively, went through the next 6 1/3 innings allowing only one safe hit. He ended the game nicely, retiring 13 consecutive batsmen...
...expense of others. A classic case is the 1958 National Defense Education Act, which has poured millions into "exotic" language study but not one cent into training college teachers of French, German and Italian. To some educators, who foresee more federal aid as inevitable, all this argues for a smart, strong referee between Congress and U.S. education-something more effective than the U.S. Office of Education, which chiefly administers legislated...
...passed in front of Emerson , the bells of Memorial Church chimed noon, and Biff admired the Coop sportsjacket that was now his "uniform." "How well I fit in," he thought. "They all think they're so smart around here, but they'd never suspect...." Yet even before he finished this reflection, he felt something slam into him and knock him off balance. Picking himself up from the path, he saw a little foreign-looking man scramble up from the ground and rush over...