Word: savvyness
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The savvy stay-at-home will quickly recognize the officers and crew of the destroyer Dreher as combat-fiction standbys, e.g., the captain, no Queeg of the Caine, but a man who wants a taut ship; the iron-man bosun, seagoing equivalent of the hard-boiled sergeant who chews nails...
Black Mark Erased. Gottwald was an earthy, peasant type who liked his pipe and bawdy jokes as well as the bottle. Beneath this exterior, he concealed a vast store of political savvy and cunning. The son of a poor farmer, he was born in Dedice, Moravia, became a carpenter'...
For the most part, Author Phillips-Marquand tells his story at just above the level of fashionable young folks' gossip and at something less than the depth of a good college bull session. Why the George Marsh generation is lost (if it is) is a question that is never...
Russell died at 62 in 1926. still protesting that he had no idea why some collectors paid the prices they did for his canvases. Yet he exhibited in London, New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, and sold several paintings for $10,000 apiece-to Canada for the Prince of Wales...
When the Littauer School was still in blueprints, the Littauer Fellows were to be the lifesblood of the School. Plucked from the ranks of the more promising men of four or more years experience in public service, they received a free year of advanced education. Like the Niemen Fellows and...