Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chances of recovering stolen bicycles, stereos, TVs, tape-players, typewriters, and appliances aren't as good, but they're much better if you supply the serial number to police. And it's smart to scratch your driver's license number on any valuables that don't have serial numbers. Pawn shops regularly report the serial numbers of new items; these are usually the only positive identification police have for recovered stolen goods...
Although very feminine and pretty, Bourke-White liked to be treated on assignment like one of the boys. Once she complained that her male colleagues were "somewhat overprotective when there was shooting." But she was also smart enough to realize that her gender could be an asset: "At important meetings, a woman is not as likely to be thrown out as a man." Demanding and visionary, in 1954 she badgered Henry Luce into promising that she would be LIFE'S first photographer to go to the moon. "Even at the peak of her career," recalled Eisenstaedt, "she was willing...
...reason for the great turnabout is a dawning realization that women who have money to spend want clothes that are comfortable and smart. Says Stan Herman, designer for Mr. Mort: "Business was so rotten last year that we began to look around for the answer -and the answer was to give the lady out in Middle America what she wants. It's a salable look." Manhattan Designer Bill Blass is even more emphatic. "I have just returned from Minneapolis," he reports, "a city I consider a good barometer of the mood of the country, and I found women hungry...
...well informed as college freshmen were 20 years ago. Educators credit this development chiefly to television, which conveys a much larger amount of information to the young outside school hours than they have ever received before. In some ways, such acceleration is making young people too smart too soon...
...scaling the bestseller lists, has actually been around for eight years. It was published in London, without causing much commercial stir, shortly before the author, a young American poet, killed herself. Bringing it out in the U.S.-after years of opposition from the author's mother -was either smart publishing or egregious good luck...