Word: shrewd
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...canvassing the freshman dormitories for political talent. We weren't too successful, if the truth be known, finding most of my classmates had their minds on P. T. credits and Gen Ed Ahf and the girl next door in Nat Sci 5 lab. Harvard seemed to be a pretty shrewd head, always bending just enough this way or that, always holding out just enough personal and academic freedom to keep people busy...
...except by implication. If indeed the country's security interests are being put in jeopardy by any of the steps taken, however reluctantly, by the Pentagon, then Congress or the Administration or both should be called to account. It appears, to the contrary, that Laird was merely being the shrewd tactician...
...test their theories, they engaged in some shrewd scientific detective work. Not only did they go through the usual painstaking steps of precise measurement, but they also ingeniously used the tiny fragments to reconstruct the creature's habits and habitats. Teeth, in particular, lend themselves to such paleontological probing...
Absolute Secrecy. Nowhere was ABC more energetic than in California, where it mixed its usual shrewd salesmanship with strong appeals to patriotism. Describing a typical approach, Dr. Jack Hagadorn, a Costa Mesa physician, said that ABC representatives displayed a right-wing tract denouncing the use of tax money to aid Communist countries. By depriving the Government of such money, they argued, an individual could decide how it should be spent...
...water pollution approved a bill sponsored by Maine Democrat Edmund Muskie that would set up an in dependent "Office of Environmental Quality." The Senate has also just unanimously passed a remarkable bill in troduced by Washington Democrat Henry ("Scoop") Jackson, chairman of the Interior Committee. A shrewd politician, Jackson finessed his bill through on the consent calendar, which bypasses floor debate. His "National Environmental Policy Act of 1969" would do no less than...