Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Americans; instead rejoice in the clever diplomacy of Henry Kissinger, brightest of the stars in the Nixon firmament. Rich Liberals: Don't kid yourselves into voting as if you really cared about blacks, Chicanos, Puerto Ricans and the rest of the poor and boring of the world get smart and support a candidate who believes in ruthless sell interest and makes no bones about it. And to you timid souls who many be troubled by the disappearance of the Bill of Rights and other key sections of the Constitution Grow up Even fascism has its good points and anyway...
McGovern's failure to take a single position has hurt his candidacy greatly. It was not until a day after reports of the settlement that McGovern did what a smart politician would have done as soon as he heard of the news: take credit for the action. McGovern should have immediately said that any settlement was due to his efforts and the antiwar movement...
EVERYONE HOPES that the Vietnam negotiations which are now at full throttle will not go awry like the U.S. "smart" bomb which brought death to employees of the French legation in Hanoi two weeks ago. Those deaths have added to the somber character of the current negotiations which have finally brought into focus the outlines of a settlements...
Paris was outraged by the attack. President Nixon sent a personal message of apology to France's Georges Pompidou, and at a Washington press conference Defense Secretary Melvin Laird explained that the jets-which were not carrying the new superaccurate, laser-guided "smart" bombs-had really been aiming at railroad yards three miles away. Disingenuously, Laird tried to suggest that the damage might have been caused by North Vietnamese antiaircraft missiles...
...Smart and fast at its best, Bad Company too often turns arch, and its characters are self-consciously countrified, like admen going to work in bib overalls. Their dialogue has the somewhat disconcerting ring of Huckleberry Finn rewritten for New Yorker cartoon captions. Benton's direction, though, is astonishingly adept for a first feature, while Brown and Bridges make an engagingly boisterous pair. The cinematography is by Gordon Willis (The Godfather), who for reasons unknown has chosen to make everything and every one look brown...