Word: shrewdness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Contentieux. That was an over statement, but no one could deny that the Congo's shrewd, hard-bargaining Premier had won a major victory. During less than ten days of negotiations-first with businessmen at Brussels' Cháteau de Val-Duchesse, later with Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak-Tshombe had resolved a 41-year-old wrangle between Belgium and its former colony, which had come to be known as "le contentieux...
From the Pacific, Peru stretches across an arid coastal desert, rises into the icy Andean highlands, then plunges into the trackless Amazon jungle. Until recently, the country's torn and fractured political life reflected the old Indian name. Now, under the hand of a shrewd and popular new president, Fernando Belaunde Terry, 52, Peruvians have an opportunity to join the quarters into a united nation...
Died. Harry Stuhldreher, 63, quarterback of Notre Dame's famed Four Horsemen backfield, the 5 ft. 7 in. "little general" whose pinpoint passes, shrewd field tactics and shin-splitting blocks led the Fighting Irish to 27 victories in 30 games from 1922 to 1924, and won for him a place on Walter Camp's 1924 All-America team-the only one of the four to make it; of acute pancreatitis; in Pittsburgh. Stuhldreher was less successful as a coach, winning only 45 while losing 62 in 13 years at the University of Wisconsin, finally left...
...simply that lofty idealism generated appallingly barbaric action. The paradox has been noted not only by class-conscious conservatives, as Palmer suggests, but also by such unimpeachable libertarians as Albert Camus and George Orwell. Palmer writes caustically of the British Establishment that scorned dem ocratic principles in the shrewd pursuit of its own self-interest. But when French arms were triumphant in 1794 and Britain's security endangered, the government in London indicted only a few persons for treason; and, though far more suspect than most Frenchmen who perished in the Terror, every one of them enjoyed...
...than the rock or the stump which the torrent strikes for a second, yet which suffices to direct its course. It is not so much that he calculates how he is to make his career a success--how, frankly, he is to boom--but that he has a queer, shrewd power of introspection, which tells him his gifts and character are such as will make him boom...