Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Captain Bill Wolff was especially impressed by the play of Marshall, starting in his first collegiate tournament. "It's pretty hot that he [Marshall] did so well," Wolff said. "He was awesome. He created opportunities for himself and made himself open. He's a smart, heads-up player...
...Smart U.S. politicians have long known the value of belonging to the "Three-I League," that elite union of travelers who have pressed the flesh in Ireland, Italy and Israel. Today the shrewd officeholder joins the "Triple-M Society," with its itinerary of foreign policy hot spots: Moscow, Manila and Managua. Lately the congressional congestion in Managua and vicinity has become particularly acute. No sooner had Robert Dole and four other Republican Senators checked out of the Nicaraguan capital last week, after some verbal sparring with President Daniel Ortega Saavedra, than Democratic Senator Tom Harkin checked in for a high...
...national hookup provided evidence for another Bread Loaf belief: children will write freshly when given a new audience. Students in the tiny ranching community of Wilsall, Mont., began writing to children in Pittsburgh about farm life in winter. "Cows aren't smart enough to paw through the snow like horses, so you have to feed them," one child explained. A Sioux student on a reservation in South Dakota wrote candidly about what is happening to one branch of the tribe: "Life for the Lakota people is going in a downward direction . . . To control it would take great human power...
...people promoting this film are smart. They have a couple of gorgeous stars, whose good looks they're playing up for all they're worth. You're so busy watching the relationship between Costner and Young develop that neither you--not all the potential blabbermouths on TV--have much time to concentrate on the "act of treason" line...
...then it all goes blooey with an endless, irrelevant car chase and -- shades of Snidely Whiplash! -- a showdown in a sawmill. Was Badham's heart really in these contortions? Or did he, like us, leave it back at Maria's place, where a smart, sweet comedy was so rudely interrupted...