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Word: smarted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...member of the "do nothing" generation (college class of '59) I'd always accepted the role of wife and mother. Pantie raids came before my time and rioting, hippies and pot came after. Thirty-three years of conditioning told me that I was not very smart, not very pretty, not very strong, and that achievement really wasn't expected of me because I was female. My parents were noticeably relieved when I married...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 20, 1972 | 3/20/1972 | See Source »

...this dude in the front seat is playing it smart and he don't say nothin' and they're cruising on back to the station. And Chick he says...

Author: By Timothy Carlson, | Title: Spruce Creek | 2/24/1972 | See Source »

McCabe and Mrs. Miller and Little Murders are two flawed but worthy American films. The first evokes a time when a man could win on style alone--the American Dream at its most basic. A tin-horn gambler and a golden-haired whore play out a laconic male, smart-bitch female romance in the 1890's Northwest. The portrayal is vivid, the material trite. Little Murders is a child's garden of negations. It plays on TV family stereotypes until their insular evils are revealed--and set in the context of a stupidly monied America. It's a rare, original...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Natural Selection | 2/17/1972 | See Source »

...their hands on, and then the next thing they're gone and all we have for it is a landslide. If you don't get suspicious, you're not right in your head." Coles agrees: "Why don't we call them 'realistic,' which means plain and simple smart about their world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Breaking the American Stereotypes | 2/14/1972 | See Source »

...have to give Marchall Sanders a pat on the back for putting the clamps on Berman during the second half," head coach Bob Harrison said after the game. "We used out heads and played smart ball when we got behind--that...

Author: By Jonathan P. Carlson, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Crimson Cager Beat Brown, 78-72 | 2/14/1972 | See Source »

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