Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since Callaghan has lost effective control of Parliament, London bookies promptly laid 4-to-5 odds on his defeat. Smart politicians, though, were betting that the avuncular Prime Minister could survive with a vote or so to spare. Since succeeding Harold Wilson a year ago, Callaghan has seen Labor's slim three-vote majority in Commons whittled by death, resignation and lost by-elections to an overall minority of nine. Still, with his party holding a 32-vote edge over the Tories, Callaghan's only fear was the kind of catalytic issue that would unite the Conservatives with...
...COUPLE OF YEARS AGO some smart publisher came out with a joke book called The Wit and Wisdom of Spiro Agnew--filled with blank pages. Billy Carter doesn't have any of Spiro Agnew's problems. He wasn't vice president (he couldn't even be elected mayor of Plains, Georgia) and when Billy pleaded "no contest" in court it was for selling beer on Sunday. That's the kind of material publishers and other purveyors of presidential pabulum realize people relate to nowadays at the supermarket counter. He's real, they say. "Billy Carter, philosopher-king, America's newest...
...Indians, who eventually turned into Central Park joggers. More than ever, Feld's choreography demanded speed and lucidity. Darting here and there in prickly little pas phrased right on the music, Sarry would suddenly spin out in a phosphorescent series of turns. Then she and Baryshnikov led a smart cakewalk. He threw a snappy salute and then, breaking free, rocketed through the air in flashing cabrioles that made the audience gasp...
...makes it because he is cool and very smart. He starts as a student of the classics. At the University of Chicago he immediately impresses teachers with his grasp of Latin and Greek. As a graduate student he is already publishing acclaimed scholarly papers. Jed's success in academe is never in doubt...
...course, that's not your fault. You knew what you were getting into, you knew you would run into people here who would make you feel as smart as an eight-year-old, as athletic as Woody Allen, as creative as today's ed page. You knew you would run into people like Mike Desaulniers...