Word: shrewdness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shrewd Delay. Algeria was a word much spoken also in a courtroom in suburban Vincennes, where nine would-be assassins were on trial for having tried to kill De Gaulle last August in an ambuscade at Petit-Clamart, a Paris suburb. As has so often happened in France since the Dreyfus case of the 1890s, the trial was not confined to pertinent evidence but blossomed into a national political affair. Very few Frenchmen had much sympathy for the defendants, but many had grave doubts about how they were being tried...
...postwar economy. He has always been more pragmatic than doctrinaire-or opportunistic, his enemies say. In a Commons speech last week he declared, "What I am saying may or may not be ideological, but it will get the export orders." With the left safely on his side, Wilson is shrewd enough to know that, as leader, he must now conciliate the party's center and right...
...April 28-29 election were only a personal popularity contest, short (5 ft. 1 in.), mustachioed Premier Amintore Fanfani, 55, might find himself out of a job. Fanfani is shrewd, not simpatico; behind his back, critics call him and his aides i bassotti (the dachshunds). More than Fanfani's looks and cold political style are against him. A 6% jump in living costs last year touched off a prolonged wave of strikes by industrial and whitecollar workers; fortnight ago, 5,000,000 workers quit their jobs in a one-day general walkout. Fanfani's year-old partnership with...
Whatever its origin, each product has found such popular appeal that shrewd owners take elaborate pains to maintain and exploit their secrecy. The Angostura formula is brewed twice weekly in 10,000 gallon hatches in a labyrinthine "secret room." Employees at Pimm's Ltd., the makers of a secret gin sling (Pimm's Cup) whipped up in the 1850s by a London chophouse bartender, are forced to take a company loyalty oath. Only four Carthuisan monks know the formula for Chartreuse, and travel between monasteries to make it. The ingredients for Coke's basic 7-X formula...
...pondering changes to give it more depth and breadth. Columbia has revamped its own pioneering (1919) general education program. Contemporary Civilization. The required sophomore part used to consist of smatterings from the works of 50 or so great thinkers; now it offers solid courses from anthropology to economics, a shrewd compromise between specialization and generalization...