Word: savvyness
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At 13, Harold Washington was already savvy about the byzantine world of Chicago politics: he worked with his father, a Democratic precinct captain, organizing voters on the South Side. He also received an early education in the rigors of competition. While at Du Sable High School, he won the city...
Hey, where's Burt? You mean to say that Harper's Bazaar selects six guys they deem the nation's "most eligible" men, and forgets America's favorite bachelor, Burt Reynolds, 46? Not only that, the magazine asks his favorite bachelorette, Loni Anderson, 36, to play...
Aside from inherent offensiveness, the column has a real knack for stumbling on the Obliquely Offensive Reference (OOR). For example, most of the responsible media in New York have long trumpeted the tragic plight of shopping bag ladies--women who live on the street, carrying their few possessions in tattered...
On a visit to West Germany, for example, Literary Gazette Editor Alexander Chakovsky characterized Andropov as a "good man" with "broadminded" views. Soviet emigres have described Andropov to U.S. journalists as "savvy," "open-minded" and "Westernized." Though the KGB crushed the Soviet Union's dissident movement, its chief was said...
Helms, of course, will be no pushover, and he has shown no signs of throwing in the lower. He's got loads of money, a mean political savvy, and a down-home folksiness that has hypnotized Carolina voters. Said one of Helms' political strategists to a North Carolina newspaper: "The...