Word: shrewd
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Khrushchev was too shrewd and too proud to accept such a fate for what he called "the substance of my viewpoint." Though publicly powerless, he believed that as a loyal Soviet citizen he could dictate his reminiscences without provoking direct interference from the regime. His family, associates and friends screened the tapes for details of security matters and potentially compromising material. These they removed...
...tips were pure gold, but seldom freely proffered. Woodward and Bernstein received no sudden revelation of Watergate's wider dimensions, used no James Bond wiles to score their scoops. They dug out the story in tortuously mined fragments, relying on shrewd hunches, dogged legwork and constant checking. Their efforts paid off on the night of Sept. 28, 1972, when a phone call from an unidentified Government lawyer steered Bernstein to a Tennessee state official, Alex Shipley, who said that he had been approached in June 1971 by Donald Segretti, an Army pal from Viet Nam days. Segretti wanted Shipley...
Money sorts out Americans, whether in good neighborhoods or bad, in first class or economy, in balcony seats or orchestra. Most of the time, economic inequality implies no final social judgments. If there is an implied link between money and merit, Americans are too shrewd to make the comparison absolute. Still, "My money is as good as his" is accepted American doctrine. Where it does not prevail, as in country-club memberships but even more in discriminatory housing, the contrary practice is usually covert, generally awkward, often shamefaced and sometimes illegal. Yet even though the phrase has the required democratic...
...former Resistance leader, is France's foremost Socialist and a formidable vote getter. From 1946 to 1958 he held eleven Cabinet posts in various pre-Gaullist governments, and he won an extraordinary 45% of the popular vote against Charles de Gaulle in the 1965 presidential election. A shrewd and brilliant tactician, he led his rejuvenated party last year into a pow erful coalition with his old foes, the Communists, to give the Gaullists their strongest challenge yet. While the U.D.R. hung on to its majority in the Assembly, the leftist union finished in a dead heat with the Gaullists...
...both the President and St. Clair, a shrewd and highly successful Boston trial lawyer, moved boldly into the public arena, the outlines of the three-pronged White House offensive were sharply etched. The strategy seeks...