Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most of all, Halleck is a fighter--a shrewd parliamentary tactician with little love of compromise. In his efforts to bring party members into line, he is more apt to use cold steamroller techniques than the genial coddling with which Martin was successful. This has already earned him the dislike of some Republicans, it is reported; and now that he is top man this feeling may become more widespread...
...Greek village that has grown rich and careful under the tolerant Turkish dominion. As the story begins, everybody in town crowds into the tiny church to hear the priest appoint the leading parts in a Passion play,* to be presented on the following Easter. The choices are almost too shrewd. Mary Magdalen is the village whore. Judas is a well-known hell raiser and general bad lot. St. Peter is the village postman. St. John is the gentle, warmhearted son of the richest man in town. Christ is a shepherd, a stammering and shy man, pure and natural in character...
...Hubert Humphrey, he could only enjoy it all-without being actually carried away. "Last year at this time," crowed a Humphrey aide, "it was Sputnik was in orbit. This year it is Humphrey in orbit." Said shrewd Presidential Hopeful Humphrey, overhearing the remark: "It will be O.K. if I stay in orbit longer than Sputnik...
...Under shrewd control and held tightly to limits, development through inflation works. But if inflation gets out of hand the currency collapses. Development by debasement of the currency is a tempting game-but a perilous...
...American cardinals. He served as secretary of the Conclave that elected Pope John, looks like a successful banker-which is what, in effect, he is. As secretary of the Institute for Works of Religion, he guides the Vatican bank, whose holdings he is said to have considerably augmented through shrewd investment...