Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Maria seems to have "all the aces," as a friend tells her, but she wonders: "What was the game?" She is still melancholic over her mother's death. She can scarcely focus on the few roles she gets. Her husband behaves either like a nagging parent or a smart-aleck child. Her friends are a menacing cadre of heartless hedonists-careless to the bone, drinking, turning on, brutalizing each other in word and sexual deed...
...while, but we took care of them. The armpit had its moment of glory, and the toes, with their athlete's foot. We went through wrinkles, we went through diets. We conquered hemorrhoids. So the businessman sat back and said, 'What's left?' And some smart guy said 'The vagina.' Today the vagina, tomorrow the world...
...inductee who drifts unprepared into his local board's maw is as hopelessly doomed as the cow who placidly rides the slaughterhouse conveyor belt. There are chances to escape-times when the belt slows down, opportunities for a smart cow to leap off and run away. But unless the potential carcass knows precisely how to seize his chances for freedom, he will join thousands of his fellows at the other end of the abattoir...
JACKSON: No man who is not hurting can tell a man who is hurting how to holler. He may tell him that in addition to being mad you've got to get smart, and you've got to have method to your madness. The business of trying to decry people because of the way they complain of injustice is past and gone...
...that round, Smallnick kept making incredibly lucky shots, but none was so amazing as a three-iron that he hit on the tenth hole. After hooking his drive on the 390-yard dogleg to the left. Smallnick could not even see the green for the trees. The smart Engineer then devised a plan which would propel his ball on a flight pattern like that of a boomerang. He would hook the ball around the trees...