Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once the rigid rules were broken, Speakers were forced to wield power by tact, persuasion and favors. "Nick" Longworth kept a firm grip on the House through shrewd committee maneuvers; Texas' Jack Garner held sway by means of his long seniority and experience...
...state of honest mental anguish; neither he nor anyone else knew for certain how the votes would go. As the clerk called the roll, Sam kept accurate count: the final tally showed the bill passed 203-202. Before any coward could switch his vote, Sam Rayburn, in a shrewd tactical move, announced the total, gaveled down all moves for reconsideration. He had won; and the U.S. Army was not disbanded four months before Pearl Harbor...
...have derived the same impression. It was the professional wit who listened and laughed. It was his wife who made the jokes. This was a true reflection of their life together. Mr. Shaw valued her criticism, knowing it sprang from a genuine love for the arts and a shrewd native wit. She, for her part, was a devoted Shavian. . . . She shirked none of her fancies from youth to old age, and she faced the last of them with anticipation rather than with dread...
...trucks lurch slowly over the scrubby, khaki-grey plateau of southern Persia, bearing Lend-Lease supplies to Russia, Persia remains on the United Nations payroll. If the Allies seize all of the Mediterranean, the cumbersome overland route to Russia may be abandoned; Persia will be out in the cold. Shrewd Persian Premier Ali Soheily added these facts last week,came up with a neat sum-Persia declared war on Germany to become eligible: 1) for Lend-Lease; 2) for a seat at the peace table...
...Springfield, known in Cumberland as "The Kelly," was dawdling along under a, skeleton staff 18 months ago. Then The Kelly leased most of its 1,000,000 sq. ft. of plant to the War Department, contracted to turn out small-arms ammunition on a cost-plus-fixed-fee basis. Shrewd, handsome Kelly President Edmund Sidney Burke handled the conversion to war production. He stored some of the tire-making machinery in plant buildings, to be handy for the reconversion job which would come some day-no one expected it so soon. Kelly's payroll skyrocketed under war orders, soon...