Word: smarter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...disgrace" of banning for good the Wehrmacht and General Staff. Joining in with the West, they argued, might turn the East-West German boundary into a 38th parallel and Germany into another Korea. It might seal off forever the Communist-held lands to the East. Would it not be smarter, more comfortable, less dangerous, to stay uncommitted and play off the fears of both sides...
Daniel S. Cheever is one man who will admit that his wife is smarter than he is. Even though Cheever is Allston Burr Senior tutor of Winthrop House, head of the Fulbright program, and assistance professor of government, the smiling, informal lecturer is quick to grant all I.Q. laurels to his wife. A crack economics student at Radcliffe, Mrs. Cheever now plays Price, Waterhouse to the family budget, tramps the Widener stacks doing research for Harvard professors, and supervises the romps of the three Cheever youngsters...
...snap courses like those found in some of the football foundries. How does Dodd consistently stay on top of the collegiate heap? The former All-American quarterback for Tennessee (1930) has a twinkle in his grey eyes when he answers that one: "Don't forget, we get the smarter boys—and that helps." It also helps that Dodd's Sugar Bowl-bound engineers seem to enjoy playing football...
...first assumption is no longer valid, and hasn't been for months. Further negotiations seem futile. The second assumption cannot be relied on. While the Communists have so far failed to make any serious attempt to seize power in Iran (they may have decided that it is smarter to stay in opposition and sabotage the government instead of being saddled with government responsibility themselves), Iran is becoming a riper and more inviting plum for the Reds every week the deadlock continues. Said one Briton last week: "After all, it might be better to lose Anglo-Iranian and keep Iran...
...Oregon Journal. Citing the 90% of the U.S. press which he says is opposing him, Stevenson said that in "the two-party" U.S. there is danger of getting a "one-party press." But he was not worried because "my party has done all right in recent elections . . . People are smarter than many politicians think, and sometimes I suspect that even editors underestimate them...