Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...arms its warplanes with missiles and rockets the U.S. perfected in Viet Nam. Especially deadly are the Sidewinder air-to-air heat-seeking missile; the Sparrow, an air-to-air missile that uses radar to direct it against either planes or tanks; and the Maverick, the so-called smart rocket of the Viet Nam War, which carries a TV camera that steers it to targets on the ground. These missiles have accounted for most of the 800 Arab tanks and more than 150 Arab planes destroyed by the Israelis...
...though, Pritchett disappoints. Too often the narrative is only a recital of debts, contracts, mistresses, houses and more debts without a sense of the relish with which this complicated and violent genius conducted his messy life. It may be that as a biographer Pritchett is too much of a smart, admiring English shopkeeper to do justice to this Napoleon of the pen. A little awe might have helped. ∙ Martha Duffy
...bemused ostrich in Fantasia, the terrifying image of little Jiminy Cricket perched on the eyeball of Monstro the Whale in Pinocchio, the sight of Dopey with diamonds screwed into his face like monocles, whirling his multiplied eyes within their facets. Such things are the real stuff, and any smart five-year-old can distinguish them from the cyclamate guck of late Disney...
...style can work, as it did against the Irish, but it calls for constant heads-up ball and for every player to be smart all the time. Most especially it calls for the defense to be vigilant and the goalie to be very stingy. The idea is to win lots of games...
...EKarefa-Smart was one of 25 faculty and administrators who rent Harvard-owned homes. A Crimson investigation revealed last week that at least 8 of the 25 tenants receive a rental subsidy from the University...