Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...speaking as one journalist to another ... as long as they [the Russians] must pretend to be more perfect than men can ever be, and must hold themselves aloof, obscure and mysterious, the timid may fear them, but the shrewd common sense of mankind and its instinct of liberty will not permit men to trust them, to like them, or to follow them...
This was the man that shrewd Manuel Quezon, the first President of the Philippine Commonwealth,* had trained and picked to succeed him. Roxas had beaten aging President Sergio Osmeña in the election last April. On him the whole moral and physical rehabilitation of the war-devastated islands depended. He would have to give the Republic credit, a face, a mind, perhaps even a heart. He was not exactly starting from scratch, but it would be a long pull...
...Hearty Feed." But by last week Stassenites suddenly realized that they might be heading for a sharp comeuppance. Despite published polls, reports from district leaders and the gossip of professional politicos showed that shrewd old Henrik Shipstead had been retrieving ground fast, might even be edging ahead...
THREE DEAD IN HAPPY HARLEM). Shrewd...
Waters is beautifully lighted and photographed. Confirmed admirers of French filmmaking will also find it sparkling with the usual Gallic excellences: subtle underplaying, sharp character drawing, loving attention to significant detail, a shrewd understanding of the overtones to complex human relationships...