Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This weekend, the smart money again would back the sabre men to lead the Harvard effort. With veteran performers like Terry Valenzuela (who missed the finals last year only because he lost a fence-off for the last slot) and Gordon Rutledge, Marion can count on a reasonably strong showing. While Valenzuela lost out in his bid to make the All-Ivy fencing squad through the proverbial "choke" in the season's finale against Yale (he lost three straight bouts), he is still one of the finest sabre men in the East, and should have little trouble making the finals...
...addition coaches from other schools are smart. They ask a ball player, 'Why hasn't Harvard been down to talk to you?'" he added...
...draconian method of enforcing Poland's building code was Zakopane's staunchly orthodox Mayor Stanislaw Bafia; in his view, the punishment fitted the crime. The capital of a scenic region billed in the brochures as "the Switzerland of Poland," Zakopane had in recent years become known among smart Poles as a good place not only to take a vacation but also to turn an easy zloty or two in illegal housing, building and real estate. As the dimensions of Zakopane's non-Communist economy were revealed in the wake of the November raid, one Warsaw paper charged...
...Tough, smart and profane, he ranks with Henry Clay, Thomas Reed and Sam Rayburn among the most powerful Speakers ever. A bred-in-the-bone Republican from Illinois, he was first elected to the House in 1872-a century ago-and served a total of 46 years...
Princeton narrowed the Crimson's lead to a goal at 3:29 of the second stanza, when Will Smart tipped the puck past goalie Joe Bertagna. Any Princeton hopes of a respectable showing were soon dashed, however, for Harvard tallied five times before the close of the period...