Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...part, Martin was letting her memos do the talking; she refused to speak with the press. A former colleague remembers Martin as smart, with a streak of stubbornness. "To me the most interesting part of the story," says the onetime associate, "is that a young lawyer took the responsibility to do this kind of thing. I don't see her getting anything...
...very smart pitcher as opposed to being a thrower," first baseman Mark Bingham says. "He's intense out there, never loses his cool, and you know he's giving it his best whether he's doing well or getting...
...included Noel Coward, Jean Cocteau, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, and Gladys Stern, whom Morgan describes as "bursting fat." Morgan looks back to Maugham's youth, when he had to live in the unfashionable section of London and take the streetcar, instead of a taxi, to attend the smart dinner parties to which he was invited. In that young man he finds shades of the self-serving social climber Maugham wrote about when he depicted Hugh Walpole as Alroy Kear in Cakes...
...have the upper hand over press questioners. If it's any consolation, no candidate, however tempted, has so far dared to dismiss importuning reporters in the way Muhammad Ali does: "I ain't gonna answer that because if I did, you'd be just as smart...
...Corn Bran is now one of the hottest new cereals on the shelf, while Ralston's Honey Bran and Kellogg's Most have also appeared in the past year. To hit even smaller segments of an increasingly fragmented market, Kellogg is test-marketing high-in-iron Smart Start for women of ages 20 to 40 and is considering a product for adults 65 and over...