Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harry Byrd was much too shrewd to jump out front with objections to the Gray Plan. Before it or any harsher program could be put into effect, a change was required in one section of the Virginia constitution that prohibited the "appropriation of public funds" for "any school or institution of learning not owned or exclusively controlled by the state." On the pretext of support for the Gray Plan with its fatal flaw, the Byrd organization fought hard for a constitutional amendment. Leading the way was Attorney General Lindsay Almond, a stem-winding stump orator, who thundered at Appomattox that...
...Arab resolution-described by Mahgoub as a step toward "human perfection, peace and security"-was a shrewd blend of the earlier Norwegian resolution and of the plan for a Middle East settlement outlined by Dag Hammarskjold at the opening meeting of the emergency session (TIME, Aug. 18). It proclaimed that the Assembly...
...nationalists howled lustily, but Jánio ignored them. The significance was that a shrewd and ambitious politician can now say out loud in Brazil that nationalism is better served by whatever means will get Brazil the petroleum the country thirsts...
...lives -and was severely criticized by U.S. liberals. Sample: "He is an Irish Catholic," said the New Republic. "Obviously his relations with the extreme right in French politics were warm." Dwight Eisenhower felt differently. He awarded Murphy the Distinguished Service Medal, later wrote of him: "Affable, friendly, exceedingly shrewd . . . Unquestionably his missionary work had much to do with eventual success...
Creating the Myth. Experts in Paris expect the new De Gaulle constitution to get 60% to 65% of the vote in the Sept. 28 referendum, for which 45 million people (including 18 million residents of Algeria and the overseas territories) are already registered. Like shrewd politicians anywhere, De Gaulle and his aides are taking no chances. In Algeria the army is already hard at work on psychologically preparing the voters. ("To condition the Moslem populace, one has to create a De Gaulle myth," declares a recently published directive of the south Algerian military zone. "The picture of the general must...