Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Iowa's first-in-the-nation caucuses, and New Hampshire's earliest-of-all primary give those states weight way out of proportion to the number of delegates they choose. In both places, Mondale's aides hunch over smart new computers, while Glenn's operatives scribble on yellow legal pads. This week Mondale will open six field offices throughout Iowa; no other candidate has an office outside Des Moines...
...lack of talented and trained teachers is especially critical for math and science. Only 50% of such teachers are qualified in their subjects; most have been recycled from other areas. The undergraduates who excel at math or physics are smart enough to know that they can make considerably more money in industry than in teaching. From 1971 to 1980, the number of math teachers dropped 78% nationwide. Massachusetts universities produced only two graduates last June certified to teach chemistry on the high school level and only two who could teach physics. Berkeley, the proud flagship of the California system...
...colony. Hitler was still widely regarded as a hysterical Munich beer-hall brawler who could have benefited from Freud's treatment. In headlines "holocaust" was only a word for a large fire. Japan's chief export was raw silk. The jet set did not yet exist; its precursor, the smart set, took a week to cross the Atlantic. The juxtaposition of "man" and "moon" was strictly fantasy...
...water he calls "effeminate." Last week, on the biggest morning of his life, this pudgy, stoop-shouldered, toothbrush-mustached but magnetic little man bounded out of bed after four hours sleep, soaped his soft flesh with cold water, shaved with cold water, put on his always neat but never smart clothes and braced himself for the third of his encounters with Paul von Beneckendorf und von Hindenburg, Der Reichspräsident...
...Smart people can make the dumbest moves. Dave Thomas and Rick Moranis were the two brightest lights of SCTV, who stumbled into celebrity by impersonating a couple of Canadian oafs named Doug and Bob McKenzie. These Two Stooges of the Great White North sprawled about in parkas, plaid shirts and toques, guzzling their beloved Molson's and calling each other "hosers." Now they have been given 90 minutes of screen time and a license to steal children's lunch money. Strange Brew, which the two stars also directed, sets the Cheech and Chong of malt into an informal...