Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This is an important step for the men's team," Assistant Coach David Flocco said. "We need to see tough swimming, race smart, and be mentally focused...
...Furthermore, he believes that the system he perpetuated has continued until the present, where Rollins' "curiously reformist" remarks are just a public statement of privately acknowledged fact. Instead of investigating, prosecuting and "re-run"-ing affairs in New Jersey, Safire endorses "a few good reporters, preferably Black and street-smart, to lay out this bipartisan system for all to marvel...
...smart and rich, however, would give large sums to the museum without the blessings of top university officials; in recent times especially people didn't give large sums precisely because they feared these blessings would be withheld. You don't have to be around Cambridge very long to know that when the president and the dean want to encourage a project, they have funds to do so, and that they do so decisively all the time. Still, this is not absolutely essential. But they have also withheld the essential blessings without which Harvard fundraising never succeeds. They now tell...
...novel's major puzzles are why Brennan, the tough old cop on the surveillance team, has gone wrong after a good career; and why Harry Dell'Appa, the smart, cocky young cop, was banished to the Siberia of western Massachusetts. When Dell'Appa finally figures things out, it's clear that Brennan explained himself in the first few sentences he spoke and that Dell'Appa isn't the only smart, ruthless member of his own family. The novel is mannered and the narration moves crabwise, and some readers may bail out. The rest of us may agree that this...
...breakfast meeting with Washington journalists, Rollins claimed that "street smart" New Jersey Republicans had doled out $500,000 in "walking-around money" to black ministers and Democratic Party activists on Whitman's behalf. But in this case the payments were actually sitting- around money, designed to counter Florio's heavy support among black voters by discouraging them from turning out on Election Day. As Rollins told the journalists, "We went into black churches and we basically said to ministers who had endorsed Florio, 'Do you have a special project?' And they said, 'We've already endorsed Florio.' We said, 'That...