Word: smartly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Koocher, a former six-term Cambridge school committee member, said Walsh is a "very smart and very quickwitted man" who "is not a likely candidate to run [from...
...international community has put Saddam under a form of house arrest. His air force cannot fly to the south; his army cannot march in the north; he dares not venture for too long into the sunlight for fear of encountering a smart bomb or a dumb bullet with his name on it. Led by the U.S., the U.N. is using sanctions, inspections and the threat of military retribution to whittle down the scope of his authority to his palace and his bunker. The hope in Washington is that sooner or later, someone in Saddam's inner circle, or more likely...
...toes and noticing the fantastic legs of his new science teacher, Miss Rheingold. Now the out-of-print novellas have been published by Crown as LITTLE FOLLIES ($22) and Peter's new adventures as WHERE DO YOU STOP? ($15). Kraft misses endless opportunities to be poisonously cute about a smart boy who likes words (spline, ontology) and worries about the universe being mostly empty (and since it is expanding, every day emptier) space between whirling electrons. His books are good, luminously intelligent...
Quayle tweaked Clinton for referring in a speech to Patriot missiles going "down chimneys" during the Gulf War. Ha, said Quayle: "Bill Clinton knows less about national security than I do about spelling!" The weapons, said Quayle, were cruise missiles. Join the club, Dan. They were smart bombs...
...dapper vaudevillian in top hat and tux, who with his monocled dummy, Charlie McCarthy, made every radio appearance seem like a Broadway opening night. Her mother is Frances Westerman, a fashion model renowned in her youth as "the Ipana Girl." Edgar and Frances made quite a pair: handsome, smart, moneyed, decent. And they made quite a daughter, one at ease with her favors, slow to complain about being too lovely or too little loved. If aloof Edgar at times seemed closer to Charlie than to Candy, that constituted benign neglect, not child abuse. Candice's lucid autobiography, Knock Wood...