Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dive: 1. Lewy (H); 2. Whitaker (Y); 3. Smart (Y). 75.45 points...
...words, and misnames the heroes of history. WOR listeners tune her in with something of the same impulse that makes crowds gather at a fatal accident. When one correspondent caught her flatfooted in a factual error, she noted his return address and sniffed characteristically: "If he's so smart, what's he still doing in Perth Amboy, New Jersey?" Says one regular: "I listen to Dorothy and Dick every morning just to get the poisons out of my system...
...word in Paris, wrote the New York Herald Tribune's smart Eugenia Sheppard. was "sex." The prim Times sidestepped and called it "femininity." Last week, as the high-fashion houses of Paris put on display their latest notions of feminine architecture, it was clear that bosoms, knees, waists and hips were back. With that psychic unanimity that seems to animate the Paris fashion world, just about every big designer apparently had decided that the days of loose-fitting, shape-hiding dresses are gone...
...which retired Navy Captain Lederer co-authored with Eugene Burdick, was a fictional morality tale about a good guy (ugly) working for his country amid a collection of bad guys (not ugly) whose laziness and incompetence, indifference and self-indulgence were rapidly turning an Asian nation over to the smart, dedicated Reds. Sheep, presented as fact, consists of five exposé-style chapters (on Laos, Thailand, Formosa, Korea, and the foreign student program), four chapters on who is to blame (bumbling bureaucrats and ignorant journalists), and four chapters on what's to be done about...
...suggest that honesty be adopted as a policy for running an athletic program. It is to request that Harvard stop excusing below-par performances by its teams by saying it can't recruit. Of course, admission to Harvard requires intelligence; but there is no immediately evident proof that smart athletes are worse than dumb ones...