Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tyson still has "his 20-year-old days" (a bachelor, he proclaims his accessibility to women), Rooney considers him "a mature fighter, a very elusive boxer -- smart. He doesn't have a high school diploma, but he's on the verge of a master's." Studying the old films, Tyson likes "to look in the background and see all the people who are dead." But he also noticed the way Joe Frazier sometimes bent forward into Ali's flurries; when Marvis Frazier did the same thing, Tyson flattened Joe's son in 30 seconds. "I really believe, deep down...
Although editors "smart" under pressures to avoid muckraking, "the sign of a good reporter is that when you're talking to a politician, a bell goes off in your head and you say, 'now, why would he be lying to me?'" he said...
...Republican National Committee and helped guide Reagan to the presidency. Nofziger left his job as Reagan's political director in January 1982 to launch one of Washington's proliferating "communications" firms. He apparently succeeded at his brand of lobbying, but at considerable risk to his reputation as a smart operator...
...expect the Bruins to get on the winning track tonight, however. "Obviously we're playing the runners up to the national champions," Hammond said. "We'll play smart, stay out of the penalty box, and stay in the game as long...
...successful work has come from his association with the late John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy and other SNL types. The Landis picture screened before the seminar, An American Werewolf in London, is a comedy-horror riot, simply plotted and masterfully executed, and laced with the kind of suburb-smart dialogue that engenders instant identification, from Great Neck, N.Y., to Encino, Calif...