Word: shrewdness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This conspiracy, they warn, is a shrewd and insidious campaign that has spun its web deep in American society. Kenneth Robertson is fond of reciting from memory one of 1200 quotations he is trying to get published in book form--this one from Dmitri Manuilski's speech to Moscow's Lenin School of Political Warfare...
...John Sherman Cooper. South Dakota's Francis Case and Karl Mundt, North Dakota's Milton Young and "Wild Bill" Langer, Nebraska's Carl Curtis) the Senate overrode the veto 64 to 29 with two votes to sp: re. But Indiana's Charles Halleck, the shrewd minority leader in the House, had already taken a reading, saw a fighting chance to defeat the bill and sustain Ike's perfect veto record...
...episodes. B.B. is not really up to her role, which demands more than the sort of lolitapalooza she invariably plays, but everybody else is excellent. Franco Interlenghi is fierce and touching as the heroine's No. 2 lover. Actress Feuillère, as the wife, subtly interprets a shrewd Frenchwoman who understands what is happening, but cannot make it hurt any less. And Actor Gabin is stonily superb as the cynical old sugar daddy who knows he will have to pay plenty for his last fling, but doesn't really mind. He has the money...
...their learned abbots. This was a critical moment, for upon his intelligence and agility of mind would depend the future balance of power. He would not be deposed should he fail the examination, but he could be turned into a puppet-a Living Buddha who was easily manipulated by shrewd and able monks...
When the rebel Khamba tribesmen began attacking Red outposts within 40 miles of Lhasa, the Red commander demanded that the Dalai Lama prove his "solidarity" by ordering his 5,000-man bodyguard against the rebels. It was a shrewd move, for in the past Lhasa had had its own troubles with the Khambas, who recognized the spiritual rule of the Dalai Lama but had a habit of killing his tax gatherers and robbing caravans. The God-King solved it neatly: he sent a message to the Khambas saying cryptically that "bloodshed was not the answer," but flatly refused to lend...