Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stage a full-dress crackdown on Sweden. Though friendly to the Allies, Sweden had continued to send Germany vital raw materials in order to keep her own economy going. Just as the last Departmental red tape had been unwound, and the crackdown readied up to the last paragraph, the shrewd Swedes forestalled it. Sweden announced that henceforth all her territorial ports on the Gulf of Bothnia and the Baltic Sea, west to the Falsterbo Canal, would be closed to foreign trade, meaning Germany. Forthwith the State Department quietly filed its snickersnee away, alongside its warnings to Argentina...
From Cleveland also was Nat LaRocca's finance. Nat adds his name to the growing list of prospective grooms, come commissioning day. It doesnt look as if Professor Hanson's shrewd forecast will be far wrong. He knows all the tricks, about any field. Apartment hunters, take note...
...chairman, the delegates selected a Canadian, shrewd, friendly Lester Bowles ("Mike") Pearson, the Dominion's Minister Plenipotentiary...
Mama's Boy. Holtz has been married twice but, as in the case of George Jessel, Milton Berle and the Marx Brothers, the best known member of his family is his mother, a shrewd, picturesque old lady with whom he lived for years between marriages. Whenever his mother met one of his new flames, she purred: "She's nice. But I don't think she's as pretty as the last...
Royalties. Eisenhower's collection of royalties last week showed that the Allies were still fighting a smart war. The biggest single collection took place at Mons. There, by the shrewd tactic of conducting a pursuit not from behind the enemy-who could delay it by dropping off rear guards-but beside the enemy on parallel roads, General Hodges' First American Army succeeded in destroying the biggest part of the Nazi rear guard...