Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week shrewd Kasim Gulek deliberately offered Menderes an opportunity for scalp-lifting. Premier Menderes, faced with rising criticism of his ruinously inflationary economic policies, has grown increasingly thin-skinned. Six weeks ago Menderes pushed through Parliament a repressive law which forbids political meetings or demonstrations except in the 45 days immediately preceding elections. (Turkey's next general elections will be held in 1958.) To test the new law, Opposition Leader Gulek decided to make a political tour of Turkey's isolated Black Sea ports...
...Collateral. To build and operate the supertankers, the Argonauts devised a shrewd technique for raising the cash without putting up much money of their own. Niarchos persuaded the oil companies-which were then unwilling to tie up capital in shipping-to put his unbuilt tankers under long-term charter (up to seven years). Armed with charters that would pay for new tankers in less than half their 20-to 25-year working span, he then made firm contracts with shipyards and went to banks and insurance companies for construction loans, using the charters as collateral. With the loans guaranteed...
...week's end the legal foundations were barely laid. Yet a curious change of attitude had already rolled over most of the 50-odd correspondents who crowded into Parris Island to report the trial. Thanks partly to the shrewd showmanship of Emile Zola Berman, but thanks mostly to the cool, silent, uncomplaining demeanor of Matthew McKeon, those who had come to see the sergeant strung up for what he had done began, instead, to sense that this man was another argument. It was an argument that went to the roots of the Marine Corps, that involved not only...
...Nehru's talents and made him a man of destiny. Through it, he discovered peasant India and the fact that, somehow or other, he could manipulate its soul. And it was primarily for this skill that Gandhi, who may have been a saint but was above all a shrewd politician, named Nehru heir to the leadership of India...
...Bourboule for centuries. The heady brew burbling up from radioactive springs around the French spa is spiced with arsenic and bicarbonate of soda and, so the Bourbouliens say, is good for anemia, rheumatism, diabetes, postprandial bloat, intermittent fevers and a host of other ailments. Sooner or later, shrewd Gallic hôteliers were sure to figure that what is good for man is also good for beasts. One fellow with the soul of a pressagent finally hit on the thought that a swig or two from La Bourboule's springs might change a candidate for the horse butchers into...