Word: shrewdness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...violence of Mboya's language, delivered with a pleased smile, reflected his own increased self-confidence and his shrewd tactical awareness that he dares not let any African leader grab a more extreme position for independence than his. To the crowd of 20,000 gathered in Nairobi's African Stadium, Mboya pledged, to the biggest cheers of the day: "We will not rest until Kenyatta is back with...
...Last Voyage (M-G-M). "Fire in the engine room!" These are the first words in this film, the first jab of what turns out to be the most violently overstimulating experience of the new year in cinema: an attempt by two shrewd shock merchants, Andrew and Virginia Stone (Julie, Cry Terror!) to give the mass audience a continuous, 91-minute injection of adrenaline...
This official biography by British Author James Pope-Hennessy may daunt some Americans, but those who are prepared to penetrate the thickets of multiple names and ever-shifting titles will read a coolly shrewd account of a woman remarkable in her own right, and survey a stretch of history lit with the kind of irony that only the truly simple-minded shed upon great events. May was a square...
Raskin, 50, a shrewd Midwestern political strategist who was a prime mover in Adlai Stevenson's unsuccessful campaigns. From time to time old Joe Kennedy looked in to watch his son with unmitigated pride...
...Interest. Shrewd, autocratic Walter Heller is the leader in a fast-growing type of commercial financing that only in recent years has become completely respectable. When banks lend money to firms, they do so on the basis of assets and good credit standing, a yardstick that often rules out loans to small or struggling businesses. Heller, on the other hand, does not bother himself about the borrower's credit, takes on firms with chronic management or financial ills as readily as sound companies that have fallen on hard times. Reason: he accepts a company's accounts receivable...