Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Inönü emerged as the master of Turkey with Saracoglu as his principal deputy. Tough, shrewd, brilliant Foreign Minister Numan Menemencioglu, whose feigned tantrums pull him through many an unpleasant interview, remained as powerful as ever. The country's only recognized political party had seen to it that Publisher Yunus Nadi, spearhead of Axis propaganda in Turkey, was not re-elected to the Grand National Assembly...
...General Auguste Noguès of Morocco, was North Africa's most truculent military figure under Vichy. A shrewd man with twinkling eyes, he is feared and respected by the natives. He has shown no warmth toward Germany, none toward the U.S. or Britain. Last week he climbed on Giraud's unity bandwagon...
...principal conferees are four: shrewd, jug-eared Sir Arthur Tedder, dried-up, taciturn Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz, wiry, ebullient Jimmy Doolittle and handsome Arthur ("Mary'') Coningham. They are a quartet of British and U.S. airmen who have one plan: to let loose a thunderbolt on the enemy...
...broadcast it, could resist the purple technique of dire warnings, manic-depressive cycles, sweeping prognostications. Many a news commentator offered his audience little more than a 15-minute nervous breakdown. Not so Elmer Davis. His voice was calm, incisive, with a Hoosier twang as reassuring as Thanksgiving, as shrewd as a small-town banker. (He did not at once recognize his voice's value, offered to take speaking lessons; CBS officials fortunately knew better.) He never interpreted, colored or predicted: the grist from his mill was fact, ground fine and digestible, sieved through a faintly subacid cast of thought...
Truman's junior Senators, hungry for tough assignments, went to work with a will. Harry Truman, a shrewd politician, a maker of friends, a great man for shooting trouble, always kept his committee, happy and on the ball. It got more money, branched out, found itself deep in every phase of the war. Today few committees, and few men, wield such power...