Word: shrewdness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ridden for a new administration with a dynamic program. Snapped Rio's Correio da Manhã: "Faced with the choice between a great Cabinet and Congressional majority, Senhor Kubitschek chose the latter." In at least two key Cabinet posts, however, Kubitschek placed his first choices: as Finance Minister, shrewd Federal Deputy José Maria Alkmin, a loyal friend since the telegraph-office days in Belo Horizonte; as War Minister, General Henrique Teixeira Lott...
Last week there was persuasive evidence that Marilyn Monroe is a shrewd businesswoman. There was also expert testimony that she is an actress...
...Senator was heading into the probability of a primary battle against ex-Governor Herman Talmadge, a hard and shrewd man who has promised the voters a declaration of his intentions next spring...
...rape of Latvia in the 1940s, based in part on films smuggled out since. The guests left in stunned silence, except for one who drew Baldanza aside, and said: "I am glad someone had the courage to do this. It may open some closed eyes." Baldanza had delivered a shrewd, if blunt, propaganda blow at a time when Premier Daoud is hoping to make important deals with his omnivorous neighbor to the north, confident that he won't be swallowed...
...Ghost at Noon, by Alberto Moravia, found Italy's best writer at his old sport of recording the battle of the sexes. A lesser work, it was nevertheless a shrewd inquiry into the reasons why a man of wobbly character loses the regard of a seemingly simple wife who is all woman...