Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...look very much like an arm twister. In fact, somebody said you look almost like his twin brother." Says Connally with an innocent smile: "I'm just an old country boy. I learned a long time ago, I'm not smart enough to be devious...
...whole stress in the company, as one former executive put it, was not so much on working hard and filling up time as on working smart and solving problems. Some of Sherman's executives were psychologists and sociologists, whom he had recruited with want ads in the Saturday Review and Psychology Today. "You can take a so-called good businessman, but you can't necessarily teach him to communicate," he said. "But if you take a man who somehow has learned to excel in the skills of communication, put him in a business suit...
...This is it, guys, the NCAA bid. So play it smart," said Brown lacrosse coach Cliff Stevenson, as the rain poured down and made his crisp new ball-cap soggy. "They can't make up five goals unless you let them. So let's have no goddam banana passes...
Questions about his underworld life were dismissed by Westchester County Elementary Schoolteacher Dick Capazzola, one of the diners. Said Capazzola: "If Joe's guilty of all they say, they ought to make him Secretary of State at least, because he's too smart for them to prove anything...
...better jobs and were promptly confronted by a battery of promotion requirements. Workers had to have either a high school diploma or pass the intelligence test, which obviously had little to do with a man's ability to unload coal. The 13 blacks failed the test but were smart enough to challenge the legality of the screening process. Represented by the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund, they argued that the tests illegally excluded them from promotion...