Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Competing for the new market, dress manufacturers have adapted dresses designed by smart French and Italian couturiers and put them into mass production at off-the-peg prices ($35 for a suit, $9 for a dress). Glossy women's magazines filled with how-to-do-it beauty articles have proliferated and prospered. Any hairdresser styling himself "René of Paris" or "André of Mayfair" does a roaring business...
...have their say. Former Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York, blasting the acceptance speech of Senator John F. Kennedy '40 at the Democratic Convention two weeks ago, said that it made him "wonder whether he's grown up enough to be President." He criticized Kennedy for his "smart-aleck attack on the President and Vice-President of the United States," and charged that Kennedy had "associated himself" with Lincoln, Alexander the Great, etc., in his reply to former President Truman...
...heritage, the Maniots of today are remarkably royalist. In private homes, Fermor found pictures of Greece's King Paul and Queen Frederika right next to those of George VI and Elizabeth II. In one Maniot home, such pictures were flanked by a 1926 fashion advertisement of the "Be Smart Tailors of Madison Avenue...
...West Coast's largest public utility, took a serious view of the economy's uncertainty, said it spurred the kind of "depression-maybe" talk that was last heard at the low point of the 1958 recession. Said Black: "I don't know anybody who is smart enough to say what's going on." Consumers, too, have their doubts about the pace of the economy, and some mer chants report a buyers' tendency to put off deferable "big-ticket" purchases- furniture, appliances, etc. The University of Michigan's Survey Research Center this week reported...
...idea of Russian bases in Cuba is "bunk-comic-opera stuff." The Kremlin is too smart for that since such bases would be indefensible. Communists in Latin America are concealing direct ties to Moscow, hammering at the U.S. as "the colossus of the North" through nationalist, anti-imperialist propaganda themes laid down by the 21st Communist Party Congress at Moscow in early...