Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...officers last week turned it out 3,000 strong for a snappy if belated Armistice Day parade. As he brought the troops into the line of march on Boulevard Albert I, a Belgian captain turned to Mobutu, whose highest rank under Belgian rule was sergeant, and announced with a smart salute: "All is ready, mon colonel.'" The army band broke into a new national anthem that nobody had ever heard before, and the 75,000 spectators liked the show well enough to refrain from breaking out with the bicycle chains they had brought along in case of dissension...
...storm that followed, a special judicial commission delivered a secret report that is said to clear Lavon. Newspapers have managed to hint that Lavon's relations with young Army Chief Moshe Dayan and Shimon Peres, the whip-smart young director-general of the Defense Ministry, were terrible at the time. But Peres. 37, now B-G's Deputy Defense Minister, denies that he had any part in framing Lavon, and Dayan, 45, now Agriculture Minister and B-G's present favorite for the succession, has said nothing...
...veteran staffers of the labor rackets committee and the most loyal supporters of Bobby Kennedy. But the reaction of his adversaries is foaming. Jimmy Hoffa turns purple at the mere mention of the Kennedy name. "Bobby Kennedy," he says, in a compassionate moment, "is a young, dimwitted, curly-headed smart aleck." Says an attorney who opposed him: "I might as well leave town if Jack Kennedy is elected President." Says Bobby: "It was like playing Notre Dame every...
...phenomenal high school football player. But as he himself admits, Maris is something less than cum laude off the athletic field, and though scouted as a promising halfback by the University of Oklahoma, he got no further than high school. Says he: "I guess I wasn't smart enough...
Southern Exposure. The aristocracy still produces its rare blooms, such as Henrietta Tiarks, 1957's Debutante of the Year, and young Lady Beatty. But except for the consistently smart Duchess of Kent and the occasional piquancy of Princess Margaret, the royal family itself is too safe and sane to serve as popular fashion plates for Britain's enterprising young women. Instead they have turned to film stars. First, notes the British Harper's Bazaar, there were "the ubiquitous and slightly blurred carbons of Elizabeth Taylor ... Since then, passing through the [Audrey] Hepburn phase, we are now being...