Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...January fresh units fought their way into Kerch, but were halted by German tanks. To head this front, Moscow brought from the north bullnecked, shrewd-eyed General Andrei Yeremenko, a 51 -year-old Cossack who headed Stalin grad's defense...
...also the man who stopped an auction in mid-frenzy when the bidding went higher than his shrewd sense of values told him was sound. Nonetheless, he had some frantic figures to brag about...
After Washington comes London, and after London the Prime Minister will probably pass through Washington once again. When next John Curtin cocks a foot on his big bare desk in Canberra he should have a shrewd idea of how to guide Australia into its new world...
...Paramount) is the name of a Flying Fortress. This 45-minute picture reports the Belle's 25th mission over Germany, which retired her crew to the U.S. The film is chiefly the work of Lieut. Colonel William Wyler, whose last film as a civilian was Mrs. Miniver, a shrewd but somewhat plushy war poster. There is no plush about Memphis Belle. It is one of the few genuinely exciting U.S. documentaries...
...With shrewd use of small forces, he outmaneuvered and outfought the Japanese, pushed them back toward Rabaul where they would be crushed under the bombs of MacArthur's Fifth Air Force as well as Halsey's own varied airfleets...