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Word: smarted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Joseph is in his early twenties. Although he is very smart, Joseph has no source of income, no home, and few friends. He doesn't like to eat in front of other people, and although he was hungry, he never allowed me to buy him food. He also makes it a rule never to bum cigarettes from his friends--he gets them from strangers or finds them, half-smoked, on the sidewalk. His heroes are Jack Kerouac, Arthur Rimbaud and Bob Dylan, and his favorite joke is "Could you spare a quarter? I have to get my mother...

Author: By Naomi L. Pierce, | Title: Out on His Own | 3/1/1984 | See Source »

...Hampshire voters are cantankerous they're independent they make up their own minds. They're also smart," Hart told the youngish crowd...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn and The CRIMSON Staff, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSONS | Title: Hart Stuns Mondale in New Hampshire Upset | 2/29/1984 | See Source »

...smart handicappers predicted that Kitty, 22, and Peter, 24, would win friends but not influence judges, six of whom came from Europe (three from the East bloc) and all of whom frowned on the more robust American style in pairs skating. But as happens when no confirmed champion operates from a position of strength, the Soviets and East Germans overreached themselves in technical ambition. Only Valova and Vasiliev managed to skate a short program free of bobbles. The Carrutherses, meanwhile, skimmed through the wreckage, their bloopers merely those of timing, not of standing upright. When the smoke cleared, they were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Little Touch of Heaven | 2/27/1984 | See Source »

Such as publishing a book that enhances one's self and diminishes one's enemies. Or, better yet, enhances one's self by diminishing one's enemies. Mayor: An Autobiography reads like the morning after a night of the long knives - smart, ebullient, witty, vengeful and damaging. Who can ever again think of Bella Abzug without remembering Koch's cruel wisecrack? Asked why Abzug lost her home district in a 1972 congressional primary, he replied, "Her neighbors know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Huggings and Muggings | 2/27/1984 | See Source »

...action, Bill Kealey took ninth, Tim Allen took fourteenth and Mike Smart took sixteenth in the cross country relay finished third overall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Men, Women Ski To Fourth Place | 2/22/1984 | See Source »

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