Word: shrewdness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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KING RAT. A shrewd G.I. con man George Segal) exploits his buddies for fun and profit in Writer-Director Bryan Forbes's harsh, searching drama about survival of the fittest in a Japanese prison compound during World...
...Liberals into the dogfall election. Gordon resigned immediately after the election. Of the old ministers, only a few came out of the shuffle with increased stature, and the most important of them is Gordon's replacement, Mitchell Sharp, former Minister of Trade and Commerce and the shrewd negotiator who in the last two years has sold $1.7 billion worth of wheat to Russia and Red China. To make sure it continues, Sharp will keep his hat as overseer of the Canadian Wheat Board...
...aggressive educator from California, Las Vegas School Superintendent Leland Byerly Newcomer, 44, has been shrewd enough to realize that the collective conscience of Las Vegas is bothered by the area's dependence on its dubious industry-and Newcomer has been smart enough to play upon that conscience to develop one of the nation's most improved and innovation-minded school systems. "The schools represent a catharsis of guilt for many people in Las Vegas," says Newcomer. "They are glad to have something that gives this community an identity and a stability it never had before...
Hope is also shrewd, well-versed in the ways of the world, and suffers fools and CRIMSON reporters patiently and gladly. While I was there she invited "Bill" in to chat (You should have seen him beaming.), wrote down the name of her New York clothes designer for a wide-eyed, empty-headed Boston chorus girl, cheered up the nine-year-old daughter of one of the performers, and dispensed champagne to the thirsty...
...loyal friend of American independence. Not so, says Historian Morris in this exhaustive study of the political maneuvers that led up to the Peace of Paris (1783). The Bourbon monarchy tried to scuttle the upstart republic, but the attempt was averted at the peace table by three shrewd Yankee leaders (Jay, Franklin and Adams) who played a bad hand so skillfully that they won the better part...