Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...smart, good and well-behaved; he just didn't go to school a lot," Jacobs says. She says she thought that his teacher had signed him up for the math tutoring without asking him if he wanted to participate...
Sanford cited a study of male and female undergraduate's responses to exams. Men who had done well tended to say things like, " 'See, I'm really smart. I knew it all along. This is just proof,'" Sanford said. Men who had done poorly tended to say, " 'The questions were trick questions. The professor's out to get me.'" On the other hand, women who had done well responded, " 'I got lucky,'" while those who did not attributed it to laziness, she said...
...lead to a trade war," and most importantly, "don't get too emotional about America's shortcomings because no one wants to here it, anyway." The couched language and disingenuous strategizing of Simon's prime foes, Massachusetts Gov. Michael S. Dukakis and Missouri Rep. Richard Gephardt, may be politically smart, but they certainly aren't wise for the country. And Paul Simon...
...style...I don't think you get information out when you try to trip up a candidate." He says his show "never was conceived of as an opportunity for me to engage in self-promoting, hyperbolic questions designed for the viewer to say "Wow, isn't Marvin smart.' " Kalb insists on deriding such hostile cross-examination as a diversion from any serious discussion of political issues...
...stereotype of the dumb jock, but amidst all the gumcracking lie some very clever lines. Granted, he does stupid things, like calling Freud "Floyd." But his stupidity makes him an even more affable character. He's the only one in this clan that doesn't take all of this "smart talk" seriously...