Word: shrewdness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Oscar existed for attempted extermination of a presidential candidate, your "Romney Goes to War" [Jan. 5], should receive top award. Granted that George Romney is not a shrewd, accomplished politician-but that may be to his advantage. Many of us in Michigan respect him as a sincere Governor with integrity whose outstanding performance in rescuing our state from financial chaos is a matter of record...
Events are now shaping up that could very much intensify an explosion, inflaming Negroes and spurring them to action. But these same developments could, if the Democrats are shrewd enough, divide the dissidents and put them at odds with a large segment of Chicago's Negro community...
Florentine Jews who had managed to survive under Mussolini were suddenly in mortal danger. And to Hermann Goring and other shrewd predators, the wealth of Florentine art was irresistible. Long before the Allies approached the city, Wolf had assigned himself three dangerous tasks: to save lives, to prevent the plunder of the city's art, and to keep Florence from assault by having it declared an open city...
...progress. If the idyllic life he envisions for his tenants has more than a bearable streak of treacle, it is hard to cavil at the squire's well-meant fatherliness. Births, deaths, maids slipping into the shrubbery with the lads of their choice, the dotty and the shrewd, the pleasures of the bed and the hum of local politics-nothing escapes the chronicler's notice. But after a while the detail be comes soporific, the eye closes, and the thud is heard through the house as the book slides from...
...face and works outward, refusing to compromise Scarlett's bitch-coldness with an appeal to sympathy. War and poverty violently propel her into adulthood, giving her no time to mature; beneath the ruthless woman, Miss Leigh always betrays traces of the spoiled young girl. She is not alternately shrewd and charming, but both at once, too huge a character to elicit either admiration or scorn...