Word: shrewd
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...McGovern, that strategy has not only been shrewd; it has been necessary. When he announced for the presidency more than a year ago, there was skepticism, irreverence, even downright disbelief. But George Stanley McGovern, 49, once an obscure prairie politician, has somehow struck a responsive chord in the voters; he is now ahead in the extraordinary testing of Democratic presidential postulants in 1972. With Muskie out of the race, McGovern's chief rival is Humphrey, the ever-ebullient 1968 nominee, a hardy perennial compared to the burgeoning McGovern. If his momentum holds, McGovern could well take the Democratic nomination...
...birthright ("You're not a Montanan until you've weathered 40 winters," the saying goes) and steeped in frontier nostalgia. Montanans are closet cowboys in haunting pursuit of the roundup, even while struggling with realities. Democrats vote Republican, Republicans vote Democrat. The naive are suspicious, the shrewd trusting. Together they brew 100-proof populism and partake of it as effortlessly as they drink their bourbon...
...story illustrates one of the most popular themes in current women's fiction-the way men use women. Customarily the man is seen as pompous, competent in a petty way and callous. Sue Kaufman's Diary of a Mad Housewife, a shrewd and graceful comedy, shows an ambitious lawyer husband telephoning orders to his shaking wife, who has just nearly been mugged, about packing his suitcase: "Have you got a pencil? I want my tan cowhide two-suiter, not the one from Mark Cross, the new one from T. Anthony. Then I'll need two suits...
...Mafia" and "Cosa Nostra" from the script-a shrewd piece of bargaining, since "Mafia" had never appeared in the script anyway and "Cosa Nostra" had been used only once. Also, he hired some people associated with the league, including a Las Vegas nightclub M.C., Gianni Russo, who got the role of the Godfather's treacherous son-in-law Carlo. Russo, a friend of Colombo's son Anthony, provided the cast with tips on how Mafiosi would act. He cheerfully observes that the Mob is "like the Boy Scouts or Girl Scouts. Everyone should have an organization...
...THAT shrewd comment by England's first envoy to Imperial China remains accurate to this day. China has long been compared, invidiously, to a colony of human ants. The fact is that the devotion to hard labor noted by Macartney is still the nation's most conspicuous characteristic. If the thoughts of Chairman Mao Tse-tung could ever be boiled down to two words, they might plausibly be "work harder...