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Word: smartly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Kaczynski, who worked briefly at a neighbor's small sawmill a decade ago, wasn't especially handy, which may be an indication of how easy it is to assemble a mail bomb. "Ted was a hard worker," says his closest neighbor, Leland Mason, 57, "but he was not a smart worker. Short on common sense. He was not mechanically inclined. He had one old pickup truck one summer and drove it until it quit on him. It was just a minor thing that was wrong with the truck, but he didn't know how to fix it. He just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNABOMBER: TRACKING DOWN THE UNABOMBER | 4/15/1996 | See Source »

...agents imagined a smart, twisted man, carving and fiddling into the night. To kill three strangers and injure 22 others, he had to be powerfully angry. Yet he must have enormous patience to experiment with explosives and triggers and not blow his fingers off. "When you see this stuff, some of these components bear markings of having been put together and taken apart repeatedly," said Chris Ronay, the FBI's top bomb expert in the 1980s. "It's not just that he's creating something carefully. He's played with it for a while. He marks things with numbers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNABOMBER: TRACKING DOWN THE UNABOMBER | 4/15/1996 | See Source »

...think they realized in the second half they were going to have to play us a lot tougher on defense and a lot smarter on offense," Lyng said. "So they came out and they did the smart stuff--they played the smart, patient offense and we fed it by throwing the ball away on offense...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: M. Lax Falls to Notre Dame | 4/8/1996 | See Source »

...seems, can scar him as he dodges punches and pummels bat-wielding thugs with an assured agility that seems to say, "Hey, I'd look even better toppling Christy Turlington on a sandbar in Maui." Happily for Mac, his appearance isn't all he has going for him. Smart enough to have developed an immensely profitable software program, this New York City police officer lives not in some aluminum-sided row house in Queens but rather in a vast SoHo loft replete with abstract paintings and expensive sheets. Sure, he has problems--like a stiff, play-by-the-rules police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: MANNIX LIVES! | 4/8/1996 | See Source »

...enhanced protection. Prostitutes in danger turn up on both shows, looking not at all as they do on the streets of the grittiest precincts in urban America, or even as they do on NYPD Blue. Waifish and fresh-faced, they resemble well-educated publishing assistants saving up for a smart twin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: MANNIX LIVES! | 4/8/1996 | See Source »

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