Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Boss's Boss? Murray's critics consider him a captive boss, the prisoner of men and forces he cannot control. To them, the real C.I.O. boss is General Counsel Lee Pressman, lawyer, shrewd publicist, a smooth man with strong left-wing tendencies. But Phil Murray's friends, paraphrasing Voltaire, say: "If there weren't a Phil Murray it would have been necessary to invent...
...this activity was an effort on the part of Democrats to oust Republican Governor Earl Warren and his protege in the Senate, young Bill Knowland. While Senator Knowland seemed vulnerable if hit sufficiently hard, no Democrat in his right mind would yet predict shrewd, able Governor Warren's defeat...
...Moslem League's shrewd, elegant President Mohamed AH Jinnah put it coolly: "India has never been a nation. It only looks that way on a map. ... I want to eat the cow the Hindu worships. When the Hindu shakes hands with me, he must go wash his hands. Our religion is not all. Culture, history, customs, all make Moslem India a different nation from Hindu India. The Moslem has nothing in common with the Hindu except his slavery to the British...
Some of the world's best saltwater fishing is to be had in the warm waters off Florida's coast. Shrewd hands usually wait until late spring, when the big runs of bluefin tuna, tarpon, blue & white marlin begin. But for the professional small-boat skipper the best fishing time is now-when the tourists are running...
...network-manager was hired last week as a station-manager. Both the station and the man were outstanding, and both he and the station felt lucky. The manager was young (35), shrewd Lieut. Colonel John S. Hayes, who built and bossed the crackajack American Forces Network in Europe. The station was the New York Times' s 10,000-watt WQXR, which devotes 80% of its broadcast day to "the best in music," the rest to frequent news and infrequent commercials...