Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four weeks later the awakening had deteriorated into routine politics. Shrewd, ambitious Attorney General Robert...
Death & Transfigurations. In his rage against the prewar politicians he had dreamed of plain American workmen ending machine politics and voting for some "heroic, shrewd, full-informed, healthy-bodied, middleaged, beard-faced American blacksmith," who would cross the Alleghenies and march into Washington. Now it seemed to him that America lay in the hospital, feeble, bloody and bandaged. He had thought to beat the alarm and urge relentless war; he found himself soothing the wounded or silently watching the dead. He could no longer endure the poppy-show goddesses and the pretty blue and gold interior of the Capitol because...
Lebanese President Bechara El Khoury and Premier Riad Solh were still detained by the French. All titles and portfolios of the rump administration were held by Habib Abou Chala, shrewd, cautious Beirut lawyer, who had been Solh's Vice Premier, and fiercely mustachioed Emir Mejid Arslan, Defense Minister. Indolent, fun-loving Arslan is the reigning prince of the battlewise mountaineer Druses, who gave French forces a mauling in 1927, asked nothing better than another chance to fight the hated Faranji...
...Money. Casimir John Myslinski is a remarkable footballer, a vicious tackier, shrewd defense strategist and certain to be the center on more than one All-America. He is even more remarkable as a man. Like another poor boy who made a good record at West Point, John Joseph Pershing, he overcame tremendous handicaps to get there...
...Franklin Roosevelt, knowing he could hold the line no longer, hit upon a shrewd new delaying action, to win him at least another two months' time, and then enable him to retreat gracefully. He appointed a five-man committee from WLB to investigate the cost of living and report to him in 60 days. The committee will unquestionably find that costs have gone up more than 15% since January 1941, for the best available Government estimate (Bureau of Labor Statistics) sets the rise at 22½% and labor leaders argue that the true figure is even higher...