Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...timing of the blow had also been shrewd. To the north, Rundstedt had fought a slowly yielding defense back to the Roer River, and had struck while the Allies were building up their strength for a crossing. Rundstedt may also have timed his strikes to hit home before a Russian offensive could be launched on the central Polish sector...
...Less fatigued than Horizon's conscientious Editor Cyril Connolly, TIME editors sanguinely observe that pessimism among editors is not infrequently a sign of editorial health. With tongue only lightly in cheek, TIME applauds the shrewd observation of Harvard's late President Eliot: "Things seem to be going fairly well, now that a spirit of pessimism prevails in all departments...
...Perkins," the play's leading character, is a rough-&-ready Chicago sausage manufacturer. He has journeyed to Russia to "see Mr. Stalin and learn the weaknesses there must be in this system." Coarse, shrewd, unlettered, but basically goodhearted, Mr. Perkins is not a bad fellow. He visits a collective farm, tours the front, where he eats his own sausage, sent to Russia under Lend-Lease. He and the Russians understand one another. But "Mr. Hemp," the U.S. correspondent accompanying Perkins, is a slippery, prying, anti-Soviet...
Bottles to Chairs. The real Billy Rose, though not hostile to glory, is anything but fantastic. He is a shrewd, hardheaded fellow who snaps off the lights over his Old Masters when he leaves the room. But he produces for adventure as well as profit. "In six months the Diamond Horseshoe makes all the money I'm allowed to earn in a year, so I will either vegetate and let ivy grow on my legs, or try to do something worth-while." Hollywood does not interest him: "It's fine for 15 days; the 16th day I start...
Into their vacancies went a whole new team, hand-picked by Ed Stettinius and approved by the President: > Ex-Cotton Broker Will Clayton, 64, retiring Surplus Property Administrator, to handle foreign economic affairs. Shrewd, wealthy Will Clayton, a longtime friend of Jesse Jones, will also take over the Department's civilian aviation policy, reporting directly to the President...