Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Good Neighbor Policy, which had as its aim the bringing together of all Western Hemisphere nations in a democratic group, worked, in effect, when it was administered by Welles (along with some shrewd and cold-hearted Welles meddling in internal Latin American affairs). It was least effective when it was merely pronounced in righteous terms by Cordell Hull, who had an unhappy faculty of alienating sensitive Latinos with the Tennessee mountain vigor of his epithets...
...Howard would move in. Last week tanned, boyish-faced William Loeb, 41, crusading publisher of two small Vermont dailies, had taken-over in Manchester-and to help swing the $1,250,000 deal (he had put up only $250,000 of his own) had invited in a trio of shrewd news tycoons that New Hampshire had hardly heard of: the Ridder Bros., of New York and points west, whose favorite reading matter is not headlines but balance sheets...
...Lionel advertising manager Joseph E. Hanson made a shrewd deal with Liberty. With the fewest ads of any magazine in its class, Liberty had plenty of paper and its rates were low enough to fit Lionel's budget...
...caucuses brought political heads together this week, the question was whether the Reds would enter a coalition government with a non-Communist Premier, as they had done before, or whether they would insist on naming a Communist Premier of their own. Their candidate for Premier would probably be burly, shrewd Maurice Thorez (TIME, June 3). If Thorez gets the job, he will be the first Communist Premier ever to take office in western Europe. The anti-Communist sentiment of other parties is so strong, however, that he was regarded as a long shot, 10-to-1 at best...
Nonetheless, for more than half a century, lovable Uncle Remus' quaint, shrewd, illiterate, good-natured philosophizing and storytelling have delighted millions of U.S. readers. The fictional figure is now brought efficiently to Technicolored life by Actor James Baskett, whose organ-toned voice, as the lawyer in radio's Amos 'n' Andy, first attracted Producer Disney's attention. Uncle Remus addicts are not likely to quarrel about the oversweetened characterization. With the exception of Baskett and two likable children (Bobby Driscoll, 10, and Luana Patten, 7), the live actors are bores...