Word: shrewdness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Shrewd, good-humored James Prioleau Richards, special ambassador and onetime (1933-56) South Carolina Congressman, charged by the President with explaining the Eisenhower Doctrine to the Mideast governments, got a sudden change in signals last week. While Richards was in Greece, the word came through from the White House: Come Home...
...limelight sat McCarthy's chief aide, clever Roy Cohn, who, with his buddy Dave Schine, had earned the name "Junketeering Gumshoe" on his "investigating" trips abroad; Army Secretary Robert T. Stevens, the "nice guy" who had muddled his way into a political web; the shrewd, smooth-talking Senators Ev Dirksen and Karl Mundt; the lantern-jawed Tennessean Ray Jenkins, who as committee counsel peppered away at all comers; and adept, relaxed Boston Lawyer Joe Welch, attorney for the Army...
...Eisenhower Administration's civil rights bill seemed headed . for surprisingly smooth congressional sailing. But as Congressmen return from their Easter vacations, the civil rights package is in the deepest sort of trouble. The trouble is compounded of real fears about the principles of the bill and of shrewd Southern maneuvering against...
...still busily explaining what a poor idea this was, the Russians blandly announced that they were about to release the text of the pre-Suez invasion notes in which Khrushchev had warned Sir Anthony Eden and French Premier Guy Mollet against attacking Egypt. In what they apparently considered a shrewd counterpunch, the British hastily published the notes before the Russians could-and thereby helped to remind the Arabs that Russia alone among major powers had sided with Egypt before the invasion...
None of this constituted an answer to Adenauer's original question, but the shrewd old Chancellor had not really expected any. With a general election coming up, what Adenauer wanted-and what he got-was public confirmation that, no matter what his Socialist opponents might say, Russia is far less interested in German reunification on any terms than it is in preserving the status quo in Europe, so as to give itself time to regain its hold on the satellites...