Word: smugness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Short, Smug View. In any field, especially foreign relations, many an American is apt to mistake small gains for big victories and to conclude smugly that the U.S. is improving its position in the world...
Despite the great material prosperity, Americans are not feeling smug. Their grousing may spring from something deeper than the price of steak (or mink). They may sense that the future depends on how the U.S. plays its part in the world crisis and that this, in turn, depends on what goes on inside the U.S. A better American life-and not merely what the Democrats mean by better-could resolve the international deadlock...
Overconfidence beat the Republicans in 1948-and it can beat them again in 1952. Two years ago the Democrats began to slip, and that smug feeling overcame one wing of the Republican Party. The whole Taft candidacy was based on the assumption that millions of voters were panting to vote Republican for the first time...
...campaign manager, Massachusetts' Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, turned down the Taft offer, issued a smug and cocky statement: "It is never right to compromise with dishonesty. We are in the right, both on the facts and on the law, and will enter into no deals which will disenfranchise the Republicans of Texas. The convention itself will decide the issue and I have no doubt about its decision...
...heroine, Diane Lattimer, 18, has just broken out of a reformatory. She prides herself on being a hip* chick who can deep-breathe on a stick of Tea (marijuana) or leave it alone. For junkies (addicts) who get hooked on Horse (heroin), she has the smug contempt a moderate drinker might feel for an alcoholic. Emotionally, Diane is a D.P. Home, for her, is not her Bible-thumping mother's flat, but a kind of Greenwich Village inferno. The neurotics who crawl across her life and the pages of Novelist Mandel's book have addresses on Bleecker...