Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...national anniversary they were seated around a banqueting table in Chungking. Guest of honor was Mao Tse-tung, the Communist leader from Yenan, a man with destiny written in his strong face. Opposite him sat one of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's chief negotiators, shrewd General Chang Chih-chung. For 45 seesawing days the two men, backed by their aides, had pitted plan against plan to heal the breach between Communist China and Nationalist China. Now the time had arrived to give the outcome to China and the world...
Eduard Benes calls his plan for Czechoslovakia "synthesis"-a word he loves. A shrewd master of simplicity, he explains his country's "middleclass revolution" in notably simple terms: "We are giving property to the propertyless. Others who have too many possessions are being scaled down. Everyone, however, will not be on the same level. Instead, the middle class will be a broad band within which there will be plenty of room for private enterprise and initiative alongside state control and socialism...
Ebullient Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk, 59, son of the great Thomas Masaryk, is a nonpartisan in domestic politics but a western democrat in outlook. Unassuming Dr. Petr Zenkl, 61, Lord Mayor of Prague, old crony of Dr. Benes, is one of the ablest and most popular of Socialist leaders. Shrewd Antonin Zapotocki, Communist boss of the powerful, well-disciplined central trade unions council (U.R.O.), is in the thick of the nationalization program. Workers committees chosen by the U.R.O. will help the Government to manage confiscated factories, allocate manpower, speed up production...
This sketchy weather plotting has been tough on U.S. weathermen, for the chief cause of northern-hemisphere weather is the "heat balance" between the cold arctic air mass and the warm air near the equator. Lacking exact information about the extreme north, the Weather Bureau could only make shrewd guesses...
...sunken-cheeked, 62-year-old Auvergnat wore his usual white tie, looked more than ever like a peasant dressed in untidy Sunday clothes. But he was a peasant of genius. He took the measure of the High Court of Justice in Paris with a shrewd and baleful eye. As his treasonable acts were recited, the arch-collaborator of Vichyfrance calculatingly sized up the opposition: white-haired André Mornet, prosecutor of Mata Hari and Pétain; red-robed Judge Pierre Mongibeaux, who had sentenced the Marshal two months ago; the jury of resistance leaders and parliamentarians...