Word: shrewdness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rebel's Conversion. By then Nigerian politics had taken on a permanent three-way stretch. In the Ibo East, Zik's National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons held sway. In the West, the Action Group, headed by shrewd, stodgy Chief Obafemi Awolowo (pronounced Ah-Wo-lo-wo), spoke for the Yoruba people. Northern power then (as now) meant tall, solemn Alhaji Ahmadu Bello, the Sardauna (commander) of Sokoto and boss of the Northern Peoples Congress...
When he sets out to harvest the best of this bumper crop of high school stars, Coach Vaught is a shrewd and patient recruiter. He quietly notes that a degree from Ole Miss carries more weight than one from archrival Mississippi State. To hear him talk, Ole Miss football is a family affair. Eight of Vaught's assistants are graduates of the school, and most have been coaching there for a dozen years or more. Above all, Vaught extols state pride with the fervor of a militia colonel. "Boys we get from out of state can go home...
...Foreign Assets Control Office on what seemed to be a fairly routine matter. All he wanted was a license to ship a rare and ancient (1000 B.C.) bronze ax he owned to a buyer in the U.S. Throughout Hong Kong, Dealer J. D. Chen, 55, is known as a shrewd and canny man, but that day his tongue ran away with...
...only Western commodity that interested the Chinese mandarins was gold, and the China trade might have drained all the gold out of Europe if shrewd merchants like Jardine, Matheson, Dent and Joseph Henry had not found a substitute currency in opium grown in British India. They were soon landing the drug in the Pearl River estuary at the rate of 6,000,000 lbs. a year. They defended themselves morally by calling opium "a harmless luxury and precious medicine except to those who abuse it," while taking the business line that if they did not sell it to the Chinese...
...quite some time now, liberals who supported Kennedy have been forced to overlook a series of disappointing maneuvers by sagaciously telling themselves that the young man from Massachusetts was making "the shrewd political moves...