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Word: smartly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...after times, when the whales was all done to death...I'd get a lonely feeling in my belly, like the world was all empty. I missed them whales when they were gone. 'Tis strange. Some folks say as whales are only fish. No, bye! They's too smart for fish. I don't say as what they's not the smartest creatures in God's ocean. Aye and maybe out of it as well...

Author: By Celia W. Dugger, | Title: Killing Whales For No Apparent Porpoise | 12/12/1977 | See Source »

...mother on the telephone. They were telling her about how big barrelfuls of popcorn kept coming and that they were having a wonderful time. I slept through that evening's activities, but my father had a very long night washing out bedsheets and the like. My mother was a smart woman...

Author: By Laurie Hays, | Title: Zero Slope | 12/9/1977 | See Source »

...repeat herself, thinks nothing of taking trips to the Statue of Liberty, and habitually admonishes his unheeding neighbors to show up for the next community sing. Murray constructs his own world, one with its own rules and unfailing high standards. He shares this world only with his bright and smart-aleck nephew, Nick (David Scales/Harry Litman). Nick and Murray feed each other straight lines, embellishing each other's routines. They compete for better Peter Lorre imitations and more accurate identification of regional accents (Nick wins on both counts...

Author: By Susan D. Chira, | Title: All The World's ... | 12/8/1977 | See Source »

...keep my beefs brief. First, Baggott is on the first team, where he belongs, but that's where the smart moves...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: All-Ivy Grid Selections Add Insult to Injury | 11/30/1977 | See Source »

...largest competitor, British Home Stores. But M & S has so saturated the middle-brow market with its reverse-chic lines that it has little room left to grow there. So, eagerly, it is starting to change. Last month it opened its first "up market" store in London's smart Kensington district. M & S has also opened stores in France and Canada; its U.K. branches now stock such previously unavailable luxury items as pure cashmere coats, glassware, fine bone china and-in the food sections -mangoes, passion fruit and a line of house-brand champagne rated on par with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Marks & Sparks Trades Up | 11/28/1977 | See Source »

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