Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proved wily enough to win four successive elections to the Senate. In 1976 he ran against Carter in four primary races for the presidential nomination of his party−and finished ahead of Carter each time. His record on major foreign policy issues, moreover, shows that he can be smart, stubborn and willing to go against the wind. Church staked out a position against the Viet Nam War as early as 1965. He has long advocated the normalization of U.S. relations with mainland China. He fought hard for the Panama Canal Treaties. He opposed the unlimited sale of arms...
Back in the number eight spot, John Fishwick played a smart game. Once he moved out in front of his man, he relied on reverses and drops. By intercepting returns, Fishwick was able to keep his opponent...
Then wait, and be ready for mystery; one U.S. executive corresponded for years with a Chinese official who signed himself, Get Smart-style, as M 903. A breakthrough can come when least expected. An American businessman was sitting in a dentist's chair in Hong Kong having a tooth drilled, when a messenger rushed in with news that a Chinese official whom he had been trying to get an appointment with for weeks wanted to meet him in the street immediately. Once invited to Peking, rule No. 1 is never go alone. The Chinese will ask more, and more...
Later, at the border, by playing smart-ass and declaring his cocaine, which the guards search for in vain, he subjects both himself and Cheryl to the legendary orifice check. We are treated to a shot of Marjoe with a proctoscope up his ass discussing Nixon and Vietnam with the doctor. Heavy. Later, he drives his microbus (decorated with a U.S. flag on the side and an eagle on the front, heavy again) over the boarder with Cheryl silently weeping in humiliation beside...
Dubin's descent is painful to watch but thoroughly absorbing, for his struggle assumes heroic dimensions. He is smart enough to bear the responsibility for his anguish and strong enough to fight...