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Word: smarted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...commissioner, give him a few ringside seats for the next bout . . . no more trouble. The Tyson camp may have tried that tactic again, offering Washington $750,000 to withdraw her complaint. That wouldn't happen here -- not in Indianapolis, not with this accuser and not with Gregory Garrison, a smart barrister with a homespun air, whom the local D.A. had hired as special prosecutor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law The Bad and the Beautiful | 2/24/1992 | See Source »

...wasn't the 626's smart looks that drew attention so much as it was the new automobile's parenthood. The 626 may well become the first U.S. import brand to qualify under Environmental Protection Agency standards as an "American" product. Not only will U.S. workers at Mazda's Flat Rock, Mich., plant assemble the automobile, but 75% of its total content will be American-made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trade: Made in The U.S.A. | 2/17/1992 | See Source »

Like the city of Cambridge, Franzen's characters embody many different facets and textures. His religious fundamentalist, Reverend Stites, is kind and smart. No matter how hard you try, you just can't hate him. Louis' sister Eileen--a B-School alum--is greedy and conniving, but she is more like a lost and pathetic child than anything else...

Author: By Esme Howard, | Title: Local Motion | 2/13/1992 | See Source »

Grand, who supports former Massachusetts Sen. Paul E. Tsongas, spoke in an interview before a Nashua town meeting yesterday. Compared to Tsongas, Grand said, Harkin--and the other Democrats--is "not nearly as smart...

Author: By Joe Mathews, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Harkin in Trouble in New Hampshire | 2/10/1992 | See Source »

Like the 1940s movie heroines that preceded her, Griffith's character is smart, beautiful, and brave. After she volunteers to replace a downed U.S. agent in war-torn Germany, she has to depend on her ability to speak German, the invaluable training she's learned from cloak and dagger maneuvers in her favorite movies, and, in the inevitable pinch, her lover...

Author: By Sarah E. Funke, | Title: A Dim but Darling Spy | 2/6/1992 | See Source »

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