Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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More promising may be the improvements in the precision-guided U.S. weapons, like the so-called smart bombs that are literally steered to targets by television, laser beams and other means. With their pinpoint accuracy, they could stop many of the Soviet tanks that would spearhead a Warsaw Pact invasion. Although the critical guidance mechanisms of these new devices still do not work well when bad weather or smokescreens limit visibility, Collins was certain that "we will solve these and other problems, and the Russians know it." He feared, however, that "if we are going to have a crunch with...
...specials, sitcoms and so on. (The quality of comedies about whites is occasionally better too: witness The Mary Tyler Moore Show.) Blacks, on the other hand, inhabit a restricted range of TV formats; apart from their roles as local newspersons and a peppering of parts on integrated shows (a smart detective on Police Woman, for example), they are mostly seen in situation comedies...
...White is a smart fellow, and a son of the Old Sod to boot, so he knows that nobody can really cancel St. Paddy's Day. The parade may go by the boards (so much the better, say some of the old-timers--who invariably get stuck in the unenviable position of following the mounted police and their prolific mounts); but in the taverns, they will know how to be after celebrating...
...Smart theatergoers should probably blame the director for Andy Sellon's Milo Tindle. Sellon, clearly a talented actor, breezes into Wyke's mansion, his teeth gleaming obscenely, and proceeds to act as though he's been there on countless earlier occasions. Perhaps Sellon intends to play Tindle as a rather shallow gigolo, but he is not right for that interpretation--besides, Shaffer has taken great pains to show us a much more complex, sympathetic character, a young man understandably baffled by his host's odd behavior. Sellon's ultra-smooth Milo forgets to be incredulous. He improves in his later...
After Saturday's events, the smart money expected a battle between Villanova, which went into yesterday's competition with four points, and Maryland, which led the field with an impressive eight...