Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...smart-ass assaults me or my cigarette with scissors, spray, gubernatorial lemonade or whatever, that person is going to get a right hook...
...paused to entwine and intermingle. For the lovely and the loaded in Italy, La Dolce Vita of Federico Fellini's 1959 cinema masterpiece really did exist. It was served up in 1,001 nights of frenetic cafe hopping along Rome's Via Veneto, swathed in the smart fashions of Florence and Rome and recorded by swarms of flash-happy paparazzi...
...LEEEEEV-able. The word is pronounced with something of a Maxwell Smart inflection, and it has been the most popular component of the men's tennis team's vocabulary this spring. If the '78 version of Harvard tennis is to establish itself as an unbelievable squad, however, the racquetmen will have to pull off an outrageous upset over powerhouse Princeton at 2 p.m. today on the Palmer Dixon courts...
...James if threatened with hellfire. Scholars often fail to see that actual Mississippi is related to Yoknapatawpha County only as the tones of the musical scales are related to the symphonies of Beethoven. Even the grating H.L. Mencken did not manage to cut through the spoon bread. After a smart assessment of the Sahara of the beauxarts, Mencken paused to mourn the passing of a more "cultured" South that existed only in legend. The old iconoclast had swallowed the antebellum myth almost whole. And so have the generations that followed...
...Social Security jokes up there--I understand some people in the audience may be under 65. Did you like the hippie stuff? My daughter is so spoiled that when I wouldn't buy her a moped she bit the mailman. Buncha college kids up there at Harvard, you know? Smart. Think they got all the answers. When I went to college, the neighborhood was so rough that nobody graduated summs. Lemme read you my speech. See how much respect you lack for it. It's called "No Respect #19," and it's based on a routine which put me through...