Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gives him the nod, John L. Lewis will have won, through shrewd strategy and sheer mulishness, a resounding victory. If WLB turns him down, John Lewis will be able to point virtuously to his three heaving attempts at a settlement. And his big, meaty finger is still aimed ominously at a deadline: Oct. 31. After Oct. 31, if there is no approved miner-operator contract under which John Lewis' miners can work, the U.S. can do without coal...
...This shrewd Realpolitik has not been the product of Stalin's mind alone. He was helped a great deal by a small group of hardheaded party bosses, mostly unknown to the outside world. The group is bound by common bonds of Communist faith, strong nationalism, a long and harsh test of body & spirit in Czarist jails, exile, the civil...
...months ago observers had noted that American isolationism was dead as an important force; but still many intellectuals and interventionist worrywarts had gone on whacking away at the dead dog. For the five Senators were not complaining against U.S. participation abroad-they were complaining that such participation was not shrewd enough, or wise enough, or big enough...
Extortion or Bribery? As Willie's yarns went on, blackening reputations indiscriminately, the defense began to switch the blame. Shrewd James D. C. Murray, chief counsel for "The Syndicate," said: "These defendants are no angels ... a man would be a jackass to say so. However, I intend to prove that the moviemen who made these deals with them are one step lower on the ladder...
Nash's chief municipal study was in the art of low bidding for Chicago's fat sewer contracts. When shrewd Mayor Anton Joseph Cermak was killed in 1933 by a Miami assassin's bullet (intended for F.D.R.), Nash eased into the saddle, made a mayor of onetime Sewer Engineer Edward Joseph Kelly, soon began a series of colorful, losing battles for statewide power with the late Governor Henry Horner. The Nashist approach: "I like to be called a boss, even...