Word: smartness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Master, always smooth and smart in a tough spot, was ready for them. News, hey? He'd give them news. Apparently he had rummaged through his desk for every scrap that came to hand. Smiling, urbane, completely at ease in the hot morning, he greeted the reporters much as a managing editor handing out the day's assignment budget. Frontpage, feature stories, straight news, inspirational chats, financial items...
...answer to such seeming conflicts between criticism and combat records is partly that extra-smart leadership and extra-smart piloting may more than compensate for some of the U.S. fighters' technical handicaps...
...Smart President Farish, whose approach is as smooth as his head, told first of his Humble Oil beginnings, but barely reached page one of his 35-page statement when the interruptions started. Senator Homer T. Bone, chairman, was quick to challenge any implication that the case against Standard had been one-sided. Said the Senator: "I am fed up on big outfits like yours indicating to the public that Congress is trying to ride them. God knows we are not big enough to ride your outfit. You are one of the biggest corporations in the world." Later, the Senator philosophized...
This time Captain Patterson did not reply. But the captain has a daughter-brown-haired Alicia, 34, as smart as she is pretty. Long before Pearl Harbor, in her own Long Island tabloid Newsday, she had disagreed with her father's pre-war isolationism (TIME, Oct. 6). Last week she came to his defense in a signed column (reprinted in Aunt Cissie's Times-Herald...
They may date enlisted men and noncommissioned officers until they are graduated. Dates with officers must wait until they are officers themselves. But no WAAC has yet been disciplined for conduct unbecoming an officer candidate. No recalcitrant WAAC will be sent to the guardhouse. Svelte, smart, serene Oveta Hobby, the director, suggests: "Dock'em." Colonel Faith's idea: "Curtail their privileges...