Word: smartly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York City will not be the same as cutbacks and reforms are inevitably pressed upon it. "When you leave New York, you're only camping out," boasted Jimmy Walker, the 1920s mayor whose smart-talking, big-spending style symbolized the city then and now. New York has to do more of everything-do it first and do it longest. But New Yorkers will now have to live in a more subdued style. "The city must shed its big-government psychology," says Dick Netzer, dean of New York University School of Public Administration and a member of Big Mac's board...
Certainly a part of this reaction is that Puritan guilt yanking at the American heart strings: art is supposed to be work, back-breaking, meticulous, a blood and sweat document of the starving artist. Lichtenstein seems like the smart-aleck who is getting away with cheating...
None of the operators are crooks but they don't exactly stress caveat emptor either. A smart buyer knows how not to get stuck with a bum part. Every yard on the alley will test any movable part upon request and most are proud to explain the special one-time guarantee--the part will be replaced free of charge if it fails to work up to and including the first time it is used after installation...
...often I sleep with my husband, and if they'd asked me that, I would have told them," and then asked for a response. Rather than duck the question she answered with humor, "As often as possible." At no time have I heard Mrs. Ford volunteer any smart quips on any of the many subjects the press is currently chastising...
Kevin Fitzgerald has only been a state representative for Mission Hill for a few months, but he likes to think he knows what most residents in Mission Hill want. He's also smart enough to realize that RTH can mobilize a couple of hundred voters within the organization against him at the next election...