Smith

Smith
Smith, Adam
(1723-90) a Scottish ↑economist who strongly believed in ↑free enterprise (=an economic system in which private businesses are free to make money, and there is not much government control) .He developed his ideas in his book The Wealth of Nations, which has had an important influence on modern economic and political ideas
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Smith, Bes|sie
(1895-1937) a US blues singer who was very popular in the 1920s, and whose style influenced many later musicians. Many people know the story of how she died after a car crash, when she was not allowed to enter a hospital for white people because she was black.
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Smith, De|li|a
(1941- ) a British woman who writes books and makes very popular television programmes that teach people how to cook. Her books are among the most popular books sold in the UK, and people often simply call her 'Delia'.
▪ Have you tried Delia's fish pie recipe?
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Smith, I|an
(1919- ) the Prime Minister of Rhodesia from 1964 to 1978. He made Rhodesia independent of the UK without British agreement, with a government of only white people, although most people in the country were black.
→↑Zimbabwe
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Smith, Joseph
(1805-44) a US religious leader who started the ↑Mormon religion. He described how an ↑angel showed him where two golden ↑tablets (=flat pieces of metal with words cut into them) were buried in a hill in the state of New York. He translated the writing on the tablets and it became the Book of Mormon, the holy book of the Mormon religion
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Smith, Win|ston
the main character in the book ↑1984 (1949) by George Orwell, who lives in a time when the government controls everything that people do. Smith is punished by the government because he tries to have a romantic relationship with a woman.

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