Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Frances is not quite clearly drawn. At one point we are told that she never blushes, but she already has, on an earlier page. There are in fact two Franceses, and only one of them blushes. The other one, spunky and with a rich sense of irony, is too smart to fall for a one-man traveling circus like Paul Treat. But comedy is a tough taskmaster, and it seems that Arensberg, like her heroine, settles for a prayer to St. Francis de Sales, who protects editors...
...confident of my abilities, but I'll have to run a smart race," he said...
...Brain-fry has set in. You long to get away, maybe just for an hour or two, to forget the fact that living hell is just around the corner. You wander aimlessly up Plympton Street, mumbling something about Beowulf and macroeconomics, when you spot Adams House. If you're smart, you'll go in and see Scapine, a charming study break and timely cure for the mid-term blues. If not, it'll be another Store 24 night...
Wheaton also credited the "control" and "smart Play" of the Harvard midfielders. The Elis clogged the center of the field in an effort to break up Crimson passing, but the midfielders initiated several carries up the sidelines...
...industrial struggles, even over supremacy in autos or steel, have ever been more important to the U.S. economy. "The semiconductor is at the heart of modern industrial processes," says Bruce Smart, the Commerce Department's Under Secretary for International Trade. A flood of low-priced chips from Japan has squeezed the profits of U.S. chipmakers so severely that many of them could fail, thus leaving the country dependent on foreign supplies for a strategic resource. Says Smart: "If we were to be forced out of business and had to buy our semiconductors from foreigners, they would in effect control...