Word: shrewdness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...countess was Charles IV's cousin, and Goya painted her first when she was a happy little child without a care. At 18, she was forced to marry Don Manuel Godoy, a shrewd provincial nobody whose seductive charms eventually made him lover to the Queen, favorite to the King, Duke of Alcudia and later Sueca, Prince of the Peace, Prime Minister-and the most hated man in Spain. The King was so fond of Godoy that he wanted him to be part of the family, and Godoy himself languidly wrote of his marriage: "I obeyed in this...
...that is part of the secret of Coleman's success: what stock is likely to be in demand, and-more often than not-why. When a stock goes up, Coleman has usually laid in a supply of it in advance, and turns a profit. Conversely, he often is shrewd enough to unload his supply of a stock before the market in it turns down. The worst thing he has to contend with is fear-the sudden frights that cause investors to dump stocks with little reason. Says Coleman: "Nobody ever got burned to death in a theater fire. They...
...some readers will regret that the book is selective rather than complete-according to Author Flexner, only 8,000 words are listed out of a possible 45,000 -they will probably agree that the selections in most cases are shrewd and useful. The authors have worked both sides of the street in every major slang-producing area-advertising, journalism, sports, show business, politics, Wall Street, the underworld, the armed forces, teenagers, jazz musicians, racial minorities and Texas. The contributions from Negro and Yiddish slang are particularly striking. Prudes may be disturbed by the volume of sexual references, but there...
...master of the Atlantic, clipping off miles with the regularity of an ocean liner. When the fleet of 135 boats finished the 635-mile thrash from Newport to Bermuda last week, the overall winner, for an unprecedented third straight time, was Finisterre, owned and skippered by a shrewd, affable, literary-minded salt named Carleton Mitchell...
Homage to Clio, by W. H. Auden. There may be nothing very new in this collection of Auden's recent poems, but at 53 the poet is still shrewd, amusing, and prodigiously talented...