Word: shrewd
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...parochial Bostonian. He combines an ability to do business with district ward-heelers and a keen, compassionate sense of the city's racial problems. There is no doubt that the progress of the New Boston--with infusions of new business and federal aid--will continue under White's shrewd leadership...
Nitty Belcher. At that point, shrewd old Jack Warner, sensing that Dennis was "going to be a very big star," foxed the trade by gambling on her in his $6,000,000 adaptation of the bile-black comedy Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Director Mike Nichols was frankly worried about Dennis' reputation for being obstreperous, but happily found her "just about the easiest actress to work with that I have ever met." And her co-stars agreed...
...with Thailand in the serious business of creating a new, five-nation economic alliance. But Host Foreign Minister Than-at Khoman decreed pleasure before business. He whisked the diplomats off to the nearby seaside resort of Bang Saen for two preconference days of golf and conviviality. It was a shrewd move. By the time the ministers sat down last week for their formal deliberations, everyone had done so much private lobbying, a consensus had already emerged. "We'd all been so busy implanting ideas in the minds of others in private conversations," said one delegate, "that we didn...
...Labor Government, which nationalized steel over the anguished outcry of industry and the Conservative minority, the new man is an astonishing-but shrewd-choice. He is an Etonian, a Tory and a peer-Julian Edward Alfred Mond, 42, third Baron Melchett, grandson of Alfred Mond, founder of Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd., and a successful merchant banker and gentleman farmer in his own right. Thus, in case of fiasco, Labor will always be able to blame a Tory. "It's quite a fascinating thing," he said softly, "to be asked to do something as large and as complicated...
...first, people figured that he simply had to get along with the state's more moderate economic leaders; or that he was shrewd enough to seek middle-class support, now that he had the bigots and common-folk behind him; or that he was just plain nuts. Another train of thought-one that has included most Negroes from the start and is now growing rapidly-concludes that Maddox has not changed one bit. This view is supported by his sharp turn to the right in recent weeks...