Word: smartness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...challenger was a man the war-weary Filipinos knew well: smart, swart Brigadier General Manuel Roxas y Acuna, a lawyer-economist turned soldier, who had been asked by General MacArthur to stay behind when the General and the Philippine Government left...
...prospective Prime Minister, the Labor Party picked amiable, colorless Clement Attlee, since a choice between strong-arm trade unionist Ernest Bevin and smart-policy exponent Herbert Morrison might split the Party. Ernest Bevin was tipped as prospective Foreign Secretary. Promptly he expounded Labor's foreign policy...
...cost $5 million each) for the Mississippi Shipping Company Inc.'s Delta Line, to sail from Gulf ports to the East Coast of South America. ¶Son Robert, Jr. was in Brazil to drum up orders for new ships for the antique, but vital, Brazilian merchant marine. ¶ Smart and young, Ingalls' engineers were putting the finishing touches on designs for a new diesel-electric locomotive. Ingalls hopes to sell railroads 150 every postwar year...
...Setup. Around these two men -one an ex-U.S. Senator, ex-Supreme Court Justice, ex-War Mobilizer, the other a smart, prosecutor-type, young (36) attorney-Harry Truman would build a new official family. Among the true New Dealers there were few whom Truman liked; there would be some Cabinet changes made in the weeks and months ahead. And the "Palace Guard" of Roosevelt days would swiftly disappear...
...that his teeth fell out, then the upper and lower jawbones came out "in the form of horse shoes." One treatment for the ague involved putting the patient in a draft between two cabins, stripping off his clothes, pouring cold water over him until he had a "pretty powerful smart chance of a shake...