Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cuff remarks, they often find themselves having to correct his misstatements of fact. "The operative word is ignorant," Curtis Wilkie, a Washington correspondent for the Boston Globe, told Hodding Carter. "He's lazy. He's not stupid. He's shrewd. He's a smart politician." Sam Donaldson of ABC added: "You combine a very mechanized, ruthless ability to control the flow of news and Mr. Reagan's absence of a lot of depth . . . and you have a situation that just drives us up the wall...
Amid the bustle of shoppers and late-arriving office workers, it seemed like a typical Monday morning in London's West End. But in Conduit Street, a smart thoroughfare filled with fashionable shops just off New Bond Street, a daring crime was in progress. As the crowds streamed past the armored glass windows of Bonds jewelers' as yet unopened store, the staff inside was being held at gunpoint by five men, three disguised in monkey masks. After forcing the employees to open the vault, the robbers rifled trays of uncut gems and antique Indian jewelry, strewing less valuable...
...snapshots. Like another hero and presidential candidate, Dwight Eisenhower, with whom he is frequently compared, Glenn's folk stature gives him tremendous believability with his audiences. Still, the crowds studied him carefully, trying to judge his competence. Is this space hero with the soapy talk about traditional values smart enough, they seemed to be asking, shrewd enough, to run the country? Will this man who has become almost a national icon, if unmasked, turn out to be an earnest bore...
...three years ago when President Bok ventured to watch a Crimson match. According to Harvard men's tennis Coach Dave Fish: "He came down and was extremely taken by Howard Sands. He described Howard as the ultimate Harvard tennis player--not very big, not very strong, but smart as hell...
...Cardiff's ornate city hall, the smiling woman in the smart blue suit and two-strand pearl necklace was among friends. "We regard you," gushed the local chairman, "as the finest leader this country has had since the days of Winston Churchill." Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, 57, savored the roar of approval, whipped out a copy of the Labor Party manifesto and held it aloft. "A member of Labor's shadow cabinet described this as the 'longest suicide note ever penned,' " she declared gleefully. "If the British people were to put their signature...