Word: shrewdest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have to make a speech, for it would have been a deception. Brother Crawford was a man with a dark secret. In four weeks and 4,000 miles of travel through the South, nobody guessed that he was really Ray Sprigle, free, white and 61, and the shrewdest reporter on the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's staff...
Foolishness to the Foolhardy. With the $240 second money snugged away (for less than 15 minutes' work), Schindler went home, ready to drive again at six different tracks in the next seven days. With him, intact, went his reputation as the shrewdest of eastern midget drivers. After 16 years behind the wheel, Schindler knows what can and what cannot be done with the snarling little cars; foolishness he leaves to the foolhardy...
...that they once had; save for a few surface peculiarities, they are pretty much the same. And there is a new consideration that cannot be discounted: with the vacancies far outnumbered by the Freshmen anxious to fill them, picking one of the more popular Houses may not be the shrewdest possible move...
...injury was the shrewdest twist Fortune has given Peck's career. Because of it he took up acting, which he had never before considered. Because of it, he was draftproof at a time when the war brought Hollywood disastrously close to total emasculation...
...keel had been laid almost before the echo of London's V-E day celebration had died down. Along with her sister ship, the Parthia, to be launched in November, she had been rushed to completion in less than two years. She represented Britain's shrewdest hunch on what it takes to cop the postwar ocean traffic...