Word: shrewdness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...works there at a plain wooden table littered with typescript. He is the head of the "Association for the International Registry of World Citizens and People's Assembly." His admirers-in France they are legion-call him le petit homme. In the 26-year-old, carrot-topped, pleasant, shrewd and slightly corny Air Forces veteran they profess to see an authentic symbol of a scared and muddled generation. His intellectual baggage may be designed for air travel, but Garry Davis is no dope. He has a clear, canny mind which constantly surprises his intellectual French colleagues. He used...
...Siragusa is a console combination of a shrewd mind, a sharp eye for a deal and a glib tongue. He sold his car and furniture for a new grubstake in radios. Adding such other products as refrigerators, electric ranges, etc., he made Admiral Corp. into a $12 million property with eleven plants...
This week the Old Vic's governors were to announce the appointment of a single administrator, Walter Llewellyn Rees, a shrewd businessman who is drama director of the government's Arts Council. To handle the artistic end, they will name 35-year-old Hugh Hunt, an alumnus of Broadway and Dublin's Abbey Theater, who has directed Bristol's successful offshoot Old Vic since...
South African Communists watched, waited and acted. They sent shrewd, handsome Sam Kahn out on the hustings in the Western constituency of the Cape Province. Kahn campaigned sharply against Malan's apartheid (racial segregation) policy, condemned "the Nazi doctrine of white supremacy...
...present system is that it places a variable factor between the voter and the official election result. Right now several electors in the South are talking about throwing their votes to Truman, despite the statistical fact that the voters chose J. Strom Thurmond. Such a move might be shrewd politically, but it would violate the principle of free election...