Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leanwhile, DiCara was getting ??t up by his school friends. He an???onized them by being the smart-??kid in the class. He was also guilty ?? being an Italian in an Irish neighborhood. Since then he has learned to honor the Irish. DiCara refers to his car as "green, Irish green...
There are new frills, to be sure. The whisky priests now come to bless Buicks in return for booze, and the downtown businessman's chapel has a huge garage underneath. But as the author well knows, the pot has not quite melted yet and the smart satirist keeps going back for nuggets...
EVERY YEAR a Dunster House chemistry tutor sits down to dinner and finds a group of seniors waxing eloquent about revitalizing the Harvard Advocate. This year, upon discovering the annual Advocate pep rally, the tutor said, "Boys and girls, if the Advocate were smart, you'd print that mag on soft paper, and we'd make it functional as toilet paper." Everyone laughed, and someone suggested that it would be worthwhile to get the tutor to use toilet paper, and a timid voice in the corner said, "But Fred, isn't the Gazette enough?" and there was more laughter...
...cigarettes and speak only when spoken to. Said James, a pimp who, like his favorite ho, is an excellent painter: "Notice how quiet she is. You know why she's quiet? 'Cause I'm talking, not because she has nothing to say. She's as smart as I am, or smarter; she got two degrees. But she's a quiet, humble, beautiful woman because she knows the position of her place, she likes it." And he added: "Each ho thinks her man is God. Do you understand how beautiful that is?" Iceberg Slim even admitted...
Disillusioned Mentor. A directors' revolt forced Keck out of his $ 150,000-a-year job. He was a smart operations man, but he irritated board members by his strong-willed stands, often on minor issues. Some directors thought that his spending on new equipment was excessive, given the state of business. They criticized him for pressing the Civil Aeronautics Board too hard to increase fares and reduce competition...