Word: smug
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that "there are hardly any real isolationists left," he does not get around much. Doesn't he know that the 20th century is almost over, and that after 70 years we should have learned a few lessons about trying to be the do-gooding, give-it-to-them, smug messiah for all the world's people...
...beer, or falling in love, or writing novels or painting pictures, or watching the Dick Cavett Show on a color television. But whatever we have been doing, it has been personal and private, and there has been time to think. And most of us have realized that yes, the smug predictions are probably true, and the wave has crested. This is the quietest year at Harvard since Robert McNamara came to town in 1967, and Nathan Pusey's values have been reasserting themselves...
...invasion of Laos was another nightmare of shadow and substance: no one knew when it had begun, no one explained why it was going on. Nixon refused to appear on television and organize us with smug face and hackneyed rhetoric into a movement that, whatever its internal political differences, hated him and wanted, above all, to destroy him and all he stood for. And we were confused, and tired, and we could not understand. And it seemed better to wait for spring...
...raining Thursday afternoon in Cambridge. Harry Parker emerged from the boathouse and strode onto the slippery Newell dock with a smug smirk on his lips...
...Then they drop hands for the last time to begin in unison, in an easy sort of harmony a series of movements. Stretching up on the toes, wilting to the floor, swaying from side to side like-but this time, there are no specially good of specially pretty or smug dancers who will stand out. Everyone is swaying from side to side as one body, sweaty, tired out and pleased...