Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Minister of Agriculture. Kaplan is Minister of Finance, and so it goes." "All right," said the friend, "so make me Minister of Air." "But there's no such post," exclaimed the Premier. "What would a Minister of Air do without any aircraft?" The friend gave him a long, shrewd look and shrugged his shoulders. "So," he said, "what is Kaplan doing...
...shrewd skipper, who made up in ingenuity what his boat lacked in speed, would order his excellent band to play loudly when a rival drew alongside. All the passengers on the other boat would rush to the near side to listen, heeling their own vessel over until its other paddle wheel flailed helplessly half out of water...
...editors of Komsomolskaya Pravda were not amused. An investigation had been made of Miss Stepanchenko. Without doubt, she had been cultivating multiple boy friends in order to make a shrewd, calculated choice of a husband, just like any common bourgeoise...
...House, shrewd and peppery Sam Rayburn, 66, of Texas, will replace Joe Martin as Speaker. New York's durable Sol Bloom, 78, will take over the Foreign Affairs Committee from New Jersey's Charles A. Eaton. New York's tight-fisted John Taber will relinquish the Appropriations Committee purse strings to Missouri's Clarence Cannon, 69, who looks like a professional mourner and is always willing to give a sympathetic ear to an Administration request...
...near Pittsburgh, one for "blanking" (cutting) steel, the other (a $13 million factory) for stamping out Fisher Bodies. G.M.'s official reason was that it needed a body assembly plant in the Pittsburgh area. But automakers thought there was another reason. They gossiped that G.M. had made a shrewd deal with Pittsburgh steelmen, who are worried that the decision on basing points (TIME, July 19) will make it hard for Pittsburgh to sell steel when the shortage is over. The steelmen reportedly had promised G.M. plenty of steel next year in return for the new G.M. plants, which would...