Word: smarter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...views, Leo admits that the original Wanda was a bit wan, serving as a foil for her splenetic spouse. "The characters have developed over the years," says their creator. "It used to be Ralph the triumphant curmudgeon teasing Wanda the trendy feminist. But Wanda has become a lot smarter. For one thing, the column worked better that way. Each of them could express sharper opinions and then get corrected or put down or yelled at by the other. Also, as my two teen-age daughters grew older, they began complaining that I wasn't treating Wanda fairly...
Journeying twelve miles to high school in Sterling (pop. 526), Steinkuhler played only eight-man football. Perhaps the larger emphasis on versatility in this game is what made him a faster, nimbler, smarter big man, and not just a mauler, though Steinkuhler is that too. He is gentle-spoken, all the same. With his glasses on, he seems too decent for trap blocking. "Every kid in Nebraska dreams of playing football for the Cornhuskers," he says. "Everything seems so big here, and it is big. I don't even know some guys' names, and that's pretty...
...have become, at age 50 or so, a world leader, with unprecedented moral authority. Perhaps. One of Kennedy's strongest qualities was his capacity to learn from experience, to grow. His first six months in office were nearly a disaster. But by 1963 he was far maturer, riper, smarter, still passionate, but seasoned. It is interesting to wonder what his second Inaugural Address would have sounded like. It would almost surely not have reverberated with the grandiloquent bluster that one heard in the first...
Near the end of the parade, Anthony Dagliuca, a short, elderly man toting a beer can, ran up to King on the street and enthusiastically greeted him. However, he said afterwards that he was planning to vote for DiCara because "he is smarter than all of them...
...next day, speaking to the annual convention of the National Congress of Parents and Teachers in Albuquerque, Reagan pointed out that spending for schools soared between 1960 and 1980 while college-board scores slumped. "If a 600% increase could not make America smarter," he asked, "how much more do we need?" With remarkable detachment, the President at one point portrayed himself as a nonpartisan critic of the Federal Government. "Send a message to Washington, D.C.," he said. "Tell them education must never become a political football because your children come first...