Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Arabs would be smart not to put us to the test," the normally mild-mannered Lieut. General Haim Bar-Lev, the retiring chief of staff, told a meeting of Israeli mayors. "We do not now need as many months as during the war of attrition to break them...
WHERE HAS TOMMY FLOWERS GONE? Tommy is a sort of Holden Caulfield at 30, an asphalt urchin who is tart, smart and often touching...
...darting speed (4.5 in the 40) to good use as a punt returner and occasional running back. Majors is a "110% competitor" who has intercepted 13 passes in his last two seasons. Says one scout: "He has blinding speed and something better-intelligence. He's just plain football smart." SPECIALISTS. Mary Bateman, Utah, 6 ft. 3 in., 220 Ibs. College football's leading punter (average: 48 yds.) is certain to be snapped up by a team that needs a kicker who "punts the ball out of sight." Bateman is also an accurate long distance place kicker...
...society whose leaders are chosen predominantly on the basis of intelligence does not guarantee justice. Are intelligent people necessarily the best people? Mere intelligence will not help one make important value judgements or moral choices. Smart people are equally if not more capable of perpetrating injustice. Consider the war policies of Henry Kissinger, McGeorge Bundy, or Dean Rusk--all of whom are distinguished scholars. So when a society distributes its goods, factors like need, hard work and rare talent deserve reward as much as intelligence...
...Nixons, you see, are thought to be frigid, asexual, virgin or impotent. So no wonder the left never attacks sexual misadventure on the right--the left won't even admit to the fact that the right has discovered sex, too. "The last fascist we castrated wasn't even smart enough to know it had happened," complains one of the burlesqued radicals in Nixons! The remark is representative of a third of the show's total humor...