Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...term, with a resulting stalemate Government. The public seems to share this apprehension. A Louis Harris poll disclosed last week that only 39% of the respondents think Ford will "surprise people by being a strong and decisive President." Another 41% feel that he does not "seem to be very smart about the issues facing the country." On the other hand, an impressive 78% consider him "a nice guy," and 70% are persuaded that he is "running an open Administration and listens to people, which is good...
Glenn Fine and Roland Smart chipped in 14 and 12 points, respectively, to help defeat the Bruins. Fine shot only three-for-six from the floor, but managed to sink all eight from the charity stripe...
...freshman squad continued its torrid free-throw shooting, sinking 23 of 30, for 76 per cent. Like Fine, Booker also hit on all eight shots, white Smart went two-for-three. Brown, on the other hand, could manage only a .500 average, 8 of 16, accounting for a 15-point Crimson advantage...
...bear to listen to myself," said Mabel Mercer on her 75th birthday. But every smart pop singer in the past 50 years has listened and learned from Mercer how to shape and pace a lyric. Her unique style of talking a song was developed to compensate for her failing soprano voice. Now, she says, "it's just a noise." Enough, however, to hold some 500 guests spellbound at her birthday party in Manhattan. Mabel's star pupil could not make the party, but he did not forget the singer who "taught me everything I know." Frank Sinatra sent...
...Bridgeman's Restaurant, the drivers and their backers were trading tales and plotting strategy while downing tumblers of bourbon and Grain Belt beer. They also mulled over the tout sheet of Local Handicapper Duane Krause, who goes by the pen name "Timber Savage." Savage and most of the smart money favored George Attla, a lame, one-eyed Athapascan Indian from Fairbanks, Alaska. Others leaned toward Harris Dunlap, a former art teacher from Bakers Mills in New York's Adirondacks...