Word: shrewdness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...still slamming away. It is worth about $40.000 in prizes each year, with extra dollops like $10,000 for a hole-in-one (none so far) and $500 for an eagle (22). Since all the matches but one in all three series are already on film, a shrewd gambler might try to get to a cameraman or assistant producer to find out who won. Then all he'd have to do is find a sucker at air time foolish enough...
What passions flicker beneath Georgie's grey flannel mortarboard? As the reader meets him, he is preparing to go horseback riding. A shrewd old groom suggests a placid bay, but Georgie rejects his advice and takes a balky black gelding. Of course he is thrown. No student of women's-magazine prose can fail to understand the symbolic significance of this, and it has nothing to do with horseback riding. The groom (servants are as clever as presidential speechwriters in this sort of fiction) is Fate, and Georgie's pettish assertion of masculinity means that...
Separate Paths. Powers, who called the strike, does not trust Bradford. He is not so much printer as union politician, a shrewd and self-made man whose formal education ended with the second year of high school. By 1961, Powers' ambition had carried him all the way to the presidency of Local 6, from which eminence he issued the command that struck nine dailies dumb...
Hang Seng inherited this credo from its founder, the late B. Y. ("Big") Lin, who used a shrewd sense of timing and a quiet cadre of agents to "influence" the gyrating gold markets in Canton and Shanghai during the 19305. Lin cashed in when refugees from the Japanese invasion of China flocked to Hong Kong to change their Chinese folding money for gold. When the Japanese occupied Hong Kong. Hang Seng deftly resettled in unoccupied Macao; it moved back to Hong Kong right after the war. then profited from another rush for gold as the Communists swept down into central...
...many suitors, a German philologist named Friedrich Carl Andreas, was shrewd enough to realize that Lou could be won only by shock. When she refused him. he stabbed himself. Shaken. Lou married him. But she had her revenge. In the 43 years she lived with him as his wife, she never consummated the marriage...