Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Author Charles Christian Wertenbaker, 44, is chief military correspondent for TIME and LIFE. Shrewd, affable, tweedy "Wert," a seasoned reporter and able writer whose previous books have ranged from Boojum (a college novel) to A New Doctrine for the Americas, went to England in March, spent the three months before D-day diligently acquainting himself with Allied leaders, men and material. He gives full marks to General Eisenhower, but his particular heroes are Lieut. Generals Walter Bedell ("Beedle") Smith, the planner, and Omar Bradley, the U.S.' field commander...
Politics First. Shrewd Politician King now saw that he had no chance of getting what he wanted from a Dominion-provincial conference. He waited until an eleventh hour before Parliament adjourned, then let off his bombshell-there would be no conference. He blamed "the attitude of the Premier of Ontario." Cried flabbergasted Mr. Drew: "An alltime high in pure unadulterated hypocrisy...
Three astute, calculating men were ready with a forum and a plan for Pan-Arabia. They were: Egypt's Premier, cagey, ambitious Mustafa El Nahas Pasha; Syria's President, handsome, able Shukri Kuwatly; Iraq's ex-Premier, shrewd, far-seeing General Nuri Pasha Es-Said. Nahas Pasha had finally fixed the much-postponed Pan-Arab talks to open in Alexandria's garden-girdled Antoniades Palace after Ramadan (which ends Sept. 17); Kuwatly and Nuri Pasha had produced a joint plan to turn the mirage of Pan-Arabia into a reality...
...Shrewd Palmiro Togliatti, Russian-trained leader of Italy's Communists, and cautious Pietro Nenni, secretary general of the Socialists, sat down chummily, hatched an "alliance" of their two parties-a new version of the Popular Front. The surprise move gave them Italy's biggest bloc of voters, bigger than the important Christian Democrats (Catholic Centrist Party...
...Grey Bird. In Washington, Sergio Osmeña, the shrewd, quiet, Chinese mestizo, became President of the Philippines. For almost a half century Osmeña, like Quezon, had dreamed of power. But the impressionable Filipinos, fascinated by Quezon's impassioned oratory, his imperious political scheming, the glitter of his presence, thought of Sergio Osmeña as a grey bird flying beside a brightly plumaged jungle cock. Osmeña accepted his defeats quietly, finally became Manuel Quezon's political friend, came with him to the U.S. as confidant and Vice President after the fall...