Word: smarting
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...India-you set a few iron traps near a game-park watering hole, then wait for a tiger to take a wrong step. But when the trap's jagged metal teeth sink into its paw, the tiger howls-an alarm that can rouse a sleepy park ranger. So, a smart poacher will plunge a spear down the trapped animal's throat and tear out its vocal chords; then, at his leisure, he can poison or electrocute the cat-or, if the buyer doesn't mind a bullet hole in the pelt, simply shoot...
...push down—as she steps into the country’s brightest spotlight. Certainly, many Americans have learned that she’s not a “cookies and tea” woman. Many know she’s tough and know she’s smart, but it’s going to take a lot more than pink sweaters and red gloss to convince the rest of America that Hillary Clinton is the right person to run the White House.Andrew D. Fine ’09, a Crimson editorial editor, is a social studies concentrator...
Eventually, he gave up Monday-night football to visit her apartment. They talked for more than an hour. "She was smart," recalls Rusty, who was 25 at the time, as was Andrea. "She used two or three words and I didn't know what they were." Perhaps for fear of embarrassing him, she did not tell him then that she had been high school valedictorian. He had been a popular jock in high school--and a summa cum laude graduate of Auburn University. There were secrets she would never tell him. Her boldness was rooted in desperation...
...Christian leader who, with tie flying and fists clenched, once led a march of young conservatives through Washington to protest the Soviet downing of a Korean airliner and more as an operative with a taste for playing rough and cashing in. He was still the Navy brat, scrawny and smart, that his mother described to PEOPLE magazine in 1995: "[Ralph] was a wheeler-dealer," she said. "He always wanted to have the upper hand...
...college female) experience, from sitting with peers in “iPod isolation”—a habit that fascinates Jessica for being “social, yet solipsistic at the same time”—to Ivy League parties, “full of smart, funny people who are all used to being the smartest, funniest person in the room...