Word: smarter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week later got a check for $6,000. After Estes was arrested, Jackson destroyed his copies of the balance sheet at the request of one of Billie Sol's men. Said Jackson of the whole affair: "Evidently I was taken in by a man that was a little smarter than...
...markedly deficient in certain essential jazz qualities that its popularity can hardly be regarded as a success for jazz at all." Pianist Brubeck was understandably irritated but not unduly worried. His success proved, he said, not that he had "gone commercial," but that "the public is a darn sight smarter than we think they...
...women are obviously good for more than dishes and diapers. And since about 1833, when Oberlin College first gave "the misjudged and neglected sex all the instructive privileges which have hitherto unreasonably distinguished the leading sex from theirs," it has been taken for granted that most little girls are smarter than most little boys. Yet what has it got them...
...welcome to visitors-but too few campers realize that a bear hardly ever smiles: he just looks that way all the time, even when he is rummaging through a garbage can or swatting somebody in the head. Like TV's cartoon Yogi Bear, the beasts at Yellowstone are "smarter than the average bear": they can open automobile doors, and some have been known to slip a paw through a small ventilator window of a car and open the door from the inside. At Yellowstone recently, a good-sized black bear ambled up to a picnic table where two couples...
...Americans seem to have an infinite capacity for doing the wrong thing. The recent fiasco in Cuba is a perfect example of the folly of sending a boy to do a man's job. The American Indians were smarter in this respect. They let the young men do the fighting but reserved policymaking for the old men of the tribe...