Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like the vast majority of sufferers, Susan feels an intense pressure to be thin, smart, career-oriented and successful, and often this pressure has led her to turn to food for comfort. "Being at Harvard just makes the problem worse because everyone is out to succeed here, and people move so fast that they often don't take the time to be friendly or personable. When you feel like the university and the people are impersonal and all there is to do is study and sit around inside, then it is extremely easy to overeat," she says...
Calling the Soviets "very smart" for not intervening directly and allowing "the Poles to do it themselves," Goldman said Moscow would back up the Polish government militarily only if it could not control the situation alone...
Marshall also lauded fourth-ranked foilsman Cameron Bright for "very smart fencing," lead epeeman Steve Kaufer for a consistently strong performance, and epeeman Paul Crnkovich, whose technique has improved markedly during the last few meets...
...minutes, and she proves it so often that it must be true-at least when she does it. Most owners, on the other hand, are hopeless. Take poor Mr. Chambers, the tall fellow with the mustache and the unruly Doberman. He-Mr. Chambers, that is-looks smart enough, but is absolutely impossible on a leash. "That's not a very creditable performance," Woodhouse impatiently tells him on one episode. "You're rather fidgety," she observes on another. "Can you calm yourself...
Meanwhile, the obliging deputy marshal, Gary Mahaffey, 27, thought DeLeon's name sounded familiar. A police team at the courthouse was alerted, and when DeLeon returned (in a stolen car) three hours later, they had their man. His girlfriend, impatient, had already gone home without him. Smart move: he had been unable to scrounge up the money anyway...