Word: shrewd
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...center of Congress's rising movement toward impeachment of President Nixon sits savvy, silver-haired Peter W. Rodino, 64, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. He is an old-line ward politician with a sharp eye for a beneficent compromise and a shrewd politician's sense of when to wage a fight...
...moral distinctions, while at the same time Sack tells us about Calley's intelligence and honor. Few readers are likely to swallow such contradictions. Despite Sack's intent to exculpate Calley, the My Lai triggerman (still confined to base at Fort Benning) comes across as a very shrewd robot, cynically using the truth to embarrass the Army and deflect his own guilt...
Getting this gargantuan figure there on the page is Pritchett's task as a biographer, and in many ways he succeeds. He has a shrewd sense of the whole Balzac family, particularly the author's adoring mother and sister who alternately lent him money foolishly, connived with him against creditors and betrayed him to competing women...
When you are the first Republican mayor of your city in three decades, and, what is more, Democrats there outnumber Republicans 8 to 1, it behooves you to run, at the very least, a shrewd re-election campaign. Cleveland Mayor Ralph J. Perk has been doing just that, and last week he won 56% of the vote in the nominating primary against Millionaire Democrat James M. Carney.* Perk took office two years ago, succeeding Carl Stokes and changing the tone of city hall from soul food to sauerkraut. To unseat him, Carney, an attorney and land developer, seemed...
...Music expresses love and parting simultaneously," says Jeremy's shrewd, strict teacher (Leonardo Cimino). "It expresses life. Play it that way." Jeremy meets Susan (Glynnis O'Connor) at school one day, talks with her about the busy loneliness that seems to trouble them both, and falls in love with...