Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...retake Aachen by 6 o'clock tonight, instead of allowing them to conduct the highly skilled defense they are making. . . . The use the Germans have made of the past two months to recover, and their remarkable resurgence of military power, show no amateur is now in charge, but shrewd professional soldiers...
They reacted vigorously. Air Minister Charles Gavan Power, a shrewd Quebec politician and one of the ablest Cabinet Ministers, submitted his resignation at once. Four French-speaking Liberals (Jean-François Pouliot, Wilfrid LaCroix, Charles E. Parent, Maurice Bourget), strode across the floor to join the Opposition. M. LaCroix cried: "Trahison!" (Treason!) at Mr. King as he went...
...Tactician. As a tactician, Omar Bradley is blessed with powers of accurate observation and shrewd analysis, a natural affinity for maps and a flair for topography, a prodigious memory which not only endears him to countless juniors whose names he recalls, but enables him to make quick decisions by balancing in his mind all the items of risk against the elements of possible gain. He will accept bold risks if his basic horse sense, of which he has plenty, tells him they are sound...
Purges and Purposes. What did the Communists want? Part of the answer was that they wanted to keep the armed Resistance forces as revolutionary armies in being. Part was given by N.A.N.A.'s shrewd French Commentator Pertinax, now in Washington...
Then the bubble burst. Shrewd Cargill wriggled out of its short position by buying Canadian rye, shipping it into the U.S. General Foods began to unload some of its rye. The corn crop turned out to be a whopper, and distillers decided that they might get some of this for whiskey. Furthermore, use of rye in industrial alcohol is no longer compulsory. During November, rye prices slipped...