Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...holding a 3 lead. Crimson hurler B Doyle same in to pitch in the ninth . The first batter up. Husky right fielder Rossi managed a walk. After Doyle struck out catcher Doug Elliot, he walked designated hitter Bill Crowley on our pitches which may or may not have been smart since Crowley already had four hits on the afternoon...
...great deal of intellectual effort is therefore spent these days-mostly by the computer scientists themselves-trying to reassure everybody that, as smart as a machine can get, it can never be as intelligent as its progenitor. In part, this effort is made in order to see that the wizened, noncomputer generation-which often regards the younger with the unbridled enthusiasm that the Chinese showed the Mongol hordes-feels that it has a safe and legitimate place in modernity. In part, the effort is made because the proposition is true: a computer cannot possess the full range of human intelligence...
This hope is based on the ground's advantageous valley location in the heart of the city, and the decision of smart planners to design the fair as a fair rather than a permanent mausoleum of grandiose ambitions. About half of its buildings are temporary and can be dismantled and their parts sold when the fair closes. Even the trees are planted in wire baskets for possible later transplanting. Yet none of this impermanence detracts from the fun, let alone the ingenious beautification of a site that was a messy, abandoned railroad yard when groundbreaking started a little more...
...there's a vast difference between good government and convincing key blocks of voters by manipulating city spending that they are getting good government. More important, while White is smart enough to keep his own hands clean, the machine's conduct when promoting the mayor's hand picked candidates in assorted city council and state legislature races has been not only inept--his candidates are 0-for 14 in such races--but often unethical. Several of his surrogates are clearly backs one of the "Kevin Seven," his city council slate, has since been indicted for passing bad checks...
Where the smart money flows, celebrities are sure to follow. Among well-known bibliophiles, Carter Burden Jr., New York political hopeful and socialite, is reportedly amassing what experts believe will be the definitive collection of contemporary American first editions. Author Ray Bradbury favors such English novelists as Somerset Maugham and Evelyn Waugh, and Bestseller Irving Wallace collects rarer chart toppers like a signed edition of The Thin Man, for which he paid $ 1,500 last year...