Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Their alarm was not shared by the New York Times's shrewd diplomatic correspondent, James Reston. Wrote Reston: "There are many ways in which a Secretary of State can present a treaty to the Senate but the best way is to tell the Senators everything. This astonishes them, then bores them stiff, and eventually minimizes the ordeal...
...poet, journalist and orator, Muñoz Marin has combined high principles and shrewd politics to fashion a career that astonishes the friends and enemies who, only a few years ago, regarded him as dilettante, dreamer, revolutionary and bohemian. Muñoz is a husky, stoop-shouldered man with eloquent dark eyes, a big nose, a cleft chin and furrowed brow. Except when he is amused or surprised, his face has a kind of built-in sad-angry expression...
...they hit that tomato juice when they've got a head on," a shrewd young thing observed...
...Deeds. When the war gave U.M. & M. its big chance to expand, shrewd Jake Schwab was ready. At war's end, he kept right on expanding. Now his empire includes 33 companies, stretches from the U.S. (twelve weaving and finishing plants) and Canada (one plant) to South America, where U.M. & M. now has three plants...
...quality, the show is by no means up to the production. But it is surefire popular stuff, filled with surefire popular stuffing. Hammerstein & Logan have contrived a shrewd mixture of tear-jerking and rib-tickling, of sugar & spice and everything twice. Their musical play is far superior to the usual libretto nonsense; it is quite the equal, in fact, of the usual movie yarn. To all those for whom the plot's the thing, for whom heartbeats are more important than dance steps, South Pacific will seem-as it may well be-a perfect union of film and footlights...