Word: smartly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Once, when Texas' Senator Lyndon Johnson came to call upon him at the White House, President Harry Truman offered him some advice: "I see that Styles Bridges is senior Republican on your committee. That's good. Bridges is a smart man, the smartest in the Senate. He'll let you call the game. He'll let you deal the cards on the table or under the table, and either way he'll probably beat you. But you let him know what you're doing, how you're dealing the cards...
...draft choice. "He can run over you or away from you," reads one glowing report. "He takes a beating every week and still comes back for more." Although he has been handicapped this season by a back injury, Bull is also regarded as a top pro prospect, a "smart player of the Frank Gifford type, who twists off tacklers for extra yardage." Also high on the scouts' list is Kansas' Curtis McClinton, 22 (6 ft. 2 in., 212 Ibs.), drafted two years ago by the Los Angeles Rams...
...case for disarmament can be explained simply and persuasively by a comparison, Meyer said. The U.S. and Russia are like two Western ranchers, he remarked, who should find it in their own best interest to submit to a partial rule of law although still trying to out-smart each other...
...referred to only as "Y," in Dawson, Ga., who arrested Negro James Brazier for speeding in November 1957. It quotes Brazier: "When I first entered the door of the jail, 'Y' hit me on the back of the head and knocked me down and said, 'You smart son-of-a-bitch, I been wanting to get my hands on you for a long time.' I said, 'Why you want me for?' 'Y' said, 'You is a nigger who is buying new cars and we can't hardly live...
...SMART '65 Montana State College Bozeman, Mont...