Word: shrewdness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Except in reaction to some sharp crack, Nixon rarely looked at Kennedy while Kennedy was talking, although Kennedy kept a shrewd eye cocked on Nixon most of the time that the Vice President had the mike. In the realm of foreign policy they produced the real blazing sparks that could well ignite the campaign and keep it burning straight through into November. Items...
...Uses of Thunder. But though they sympathized with Macmillan, some of the neutralists were distressed by the cold-war thunder his speech evoked from Khrushchev. In shrewd awareness of this effect, Khrushchev continued to denigrate Britain's Prime Minister. Chatting with newsmen as he awaited Macmillan's ar rival for a private conference with him, Khrushchev, with deliberate offensiveness, compared him with a man whose policies Macmillan, as a prewar M.P., had bitterly opposed-Neville Chamberlain. Said Khrushchev: "Chamberlain said he had come to terms with Hitler and there would be no war. Macmillan said he had talked...
Gila monster. The family struggled to clean up their run-down property, meanwhile trying to avoid being cleaned out by a shrewd Indian called Hawkeye (inevitably J. Carrol Naish), who reads the Wall Street Journal...
...school board of Galax, Va. (pop. 5,200) is composed of shrewd men who know how to kill two birds with one stone. Galax has long had a contract to take in white high school students from adjacent Grayson County, and the 285 students cost money. When a federal court recently ordered Galax to take in eight Negro county students as well, the board saw its chance. To save both money and segregation, it simply canceled the contract with Grayson County...
...Warner) is a friendly, fairly shrewd but not really profound look at some inhabitants of a small Oklahoma town. The time is the early 19205. and this is William Inge country-several hundred miles safely north of the swamps of Tennessee Williams and Carson McCullers. but still south of that region where Booth Tar-kington's characters inhabit a perpetual fishworm and firecracker July. The people in the film made from Inge's 1957 Broadway hit have problems, but they do not include necrophilia, cannibalism or self-mutilation with garden shears; the difficulties are the sort a strong...