Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Charles de Gaulle, preparing to visit Washington, put in a week of shrewd preliminaries...
There were signs that Chiang had bent a shrewd ear to the warnings of his country's liberals and of China's true friends abroad. Chungking's strict censorship seemed to be relaxing. Allied correspondents, on a trip to the long forbidden Communist zone, were allowed to report warmly on the Communist village setup, land reforms, guerrilla tactics against the Japs. In Nationalist China, hitherto quiescent democratic groups issued a manifesto: "The formation of a democratic system should not be postponed any longer. We warn our fellow countrymen that if democracy is not realized in wartime, what...
...corporation the pension plan may be just as shrewd business policy. On its books, Loew's will write down the pension cost as $2,000,000 a year, in addition to the cash saved in salaries. The actual cost will be far less. Loew's contribution will be deductible for tax purposes. Net cost to Loew's: $400,000 a year...
...Hours (Ealing-AFE) reduces Graham Greene's fast-paced, improbable story (Went the Day Well?) to a slow-moving, improbable film. Oldtime Director Cavalcanti, heretofore much admired by cinesthetes as a shrewd theorist of sound, is not helped much by William Walton's* undistinguished score, was not wise in splattering Prologist Mervyn Johns's excellent speeches with cheery bird noises...
...face of one question: how can you argue with the people? With Dewey so clearly in front in all public soundings,* to reject him for some other candidate might suggest a picture of sinister men in smoke-filled rooms, defying the will of the people. Tom Dewey's shrewd managers could either afford to sit tight, or had been ordered to, or both. And they did. They staged no preconvention banquets or band concerts. Dewey's No. 1 feminine supporter, tall, grey Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms, occupied inconspicuous basement quarters next to the Blackstone Hotel...