Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...slain agent was a seasoned veteran of service in Russia, Turkey, Ethiopia and Sudan. "Freddie was an enormously charming guy. You liked him, , you liked to tell him secrets," said a diplomat who served with Woodruff in Africa. "He was an aggressive, old-fashioned, street-smart spook. When everything was falling apart, you could ask him to get the hell out there and find out what's going...
...without a fight; in Los Angeles County, 9 out of 10 cars are recovered within two weeks of the theft. "I like to tell people, 'Fall in love with your life, not your car. The car can be replaced.' " says Parsons of the FBI. "It's just not a smart move to go up against some 16-year-old kid with an automatic weapon. And chances are, your car is going to be recovered...
...smart federal law-enforcement officer, his wit informed by years of experience and buttressed by all the latest crime-fighting technology; a cunning, daring criminal managing always to stay just an infuriating half step ahead of his pursuer; a final confrontation that begins at a large, celebratory public occasion, proceeds to vertiginous grapplings along the edge of a big-city high-rise and ends with justice done by the narrowest, scariest of margins...
Without any fuss, that established the here and now of the done and gone, which happened to be the last years of the cattle drives. Now it's, oh, 15 years later, maybe 20. Here's the start of the sequel, Streets of Laredo: " 'Most train robbers ain't smart, which is a lucky thing for the railroads,' Call said. 'Five smart train robbers could bust every railroad in this country.' 'This young Mexican is smart,' Brookshire said, but before he could elaborate, the wind lifted his hat right off his head...
...This is smart stuff. For, finally, what is Rising Sun about but the careless ways in which cultural heritages and institutions are bartered in the international marketplace and the confusions that arise from this traffic? Just about everything that's worth thinking about in Michael Crichton's novel is wittily and efficiently set forth in this sequence...