Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Call them seers, diviners, futurists or just plain heads-up smart. The spotters are entrepreneurs of fast mind and slim purse who have, early on, discerned a social trend, a cultural drift or an economic imperative- and made it from noodle to boodle...
...more intense crisis-resolution conversations, they went for a walk by the Charles and watched the sun rise. He took her hand and she wondered if he was finally going to declare his devotion. "It's really a shame I don't go out with women who are as smart as me," he told her. "You are really very sweet." They walked back to her Leverett House dorm and he asked if he could borrow some money. He wanted to buy perfume for his 16 year old girl friend.31Tim Carlson, Mark Lennihan and P. Wayne Moore...
...also got what they call "smart" weapons; I guess I ought to say "smarter" weapons. There's the Shillelagh missile that's fired from a 152-mm. gun and is guided by an infra-red beam. There are a couple of others-a type of Maverick and the Copperhead-that are tracked to their targets by laser beams. Real Flash Gordon stuff! But don't worry about me getting vaporized by a laser or anything like that...
...situation with less student and worker discontent are myriad. Even with the Union open on weekends, the College could offer hot breakfasts at each House for only an $18 to $30 increase in per student board fees. It's hard to say whether most student$ would think this a smart buy. But the administration could have found this out by submitting the question for a vote to CHUL, a body designed to allow students to influence University policy on residence life...
Still another couple inhabits the yard, finally: two young adults on the verge of making decisions that will determine the course of their lives. As Ephraim, a young man who leaves Trinidad in frustration, Roland Smart communicates that anger forcing him to abandon his pregnant lover is justified. But as his lover, Karen Ford presents the other side of the same suffocating reality. He may be free to leave; she is trapped, forced to give in, obliged to abandon her dreams of self-respect and upward mobility...