Word: savvyness
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"But let's face it," he shrugs, "we were rag merchants." In soft goods, his tough and able boys from Brooklyn simply did not have the savvy.
Ostensibly for health reasons, McGinnis is turning the B. & M. presidency over to Vice President Daniel A. Benson, 47, a tough, savvy operating railroader who began as a New Haven yard clerk. "I don't have any heart trouble. I don't have any ulcers," says McGinnis. "But...
Yet although Hughes is already costing him campaign workers, funds and liberal support, and will cost him votes if and when he confronts a Republican in November, McCormack evinces a personal sympathy and respect for the Harvard professor that is totally absent when he discusses Ted Kennedy. "I don't...
That was not wholly tragic; some of the cast proved adequate and none inspired. Donald Somers, who was sympathetic enough as Griggs, mumbled the important speech quoted above, and, trying to play a quiet man, turned him into a weak one. As Nick Denery, Herbert Nelson was loud and disruptive...
She is ingenuous, but she is also bright, forthright, candid and savvy. In conversation, she is an excellent listener. Her voice goes very small when she is lying. She has an exquisitely nutty sense of humor. When someone begins to tell her a joke about the papacy, she says: "I...