Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the vote was announced, 70% of the delegates were for fusion. But now that he had the profusion majority vote in his pocket, shrewd Pietro Nenni remarked that there was really no hurry about fusion, that Socialists must first make sure that the Communists would not swallow them...
...Alter Immer Nein." Next day the defense scored more shrewd points. Pátain's former private secretary, Jean Tracou, testified: Nazi Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop had dubbed Pátain "Alter Immer Nein" ("Old Always No") because of his unwillingness to collaborate...
...feel it inevitable that three years hence I must be one of the masters of the picture business." Thus, 15 months ago, shrewd, star-bargaining Hollywood Producer David O.Selznick appraised his future. He was holding himself...
...Alger himself made a fortune by the mass production of novels. (Never a shrewd businessman, Alger sold most of his works outright at moderate prices. At the height of his reputation, he had to piece out his literary earnings by tutoring schoolboys in French and Latin. One of his pupils: the future Supreme Court Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo...
Woodcock might well be the exception to a long line of glass-chinned British heavyweights, but shrewd Tom Hurit, his manager, knew that the 24-year-old slugger was still awkward afoot and short on ring savvy. Woodcock needed two years of seasoning before he could even think of stepping into a ring with a Billy Conn or a Joe Louis. Step One was to put him on a full-time fighting basis. Until now, the pride of Yorkshire had worked all day in a Doncaster railroad shop, trained nightly in a hayloft. Since there is no one left...