Word: shrewd
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...style" of a recognized master, then peddle the pictures to gullible bargain hunters, often-the experts believe-to unwary tourists from Latin America and the U.S. Most of the time the fakes are incredibly crude, but sometimes the canvases are so clever that they defy even a shrewd buyer...
...such official ever before had to adjust U.S. diplomacy so quickly, to give it a world-wide scope and make it effective against a shrewd and strong enemy, and to do it in the context of present-day technology. His response to that challenge is what makes Acheson a great Secretary...
Human nature is not black and white, but black and grey." Died. Edward Eugene ("Goober") Cox, 72, longtime (since 1925) Georgia member of the House of Representatives and second in seniority on the House Rules Committee; of a heart ailment; in the Naval Hospital at Bethesda, Md. Shrewd, rabble-rousing Congressman Cox was convinced that the world is divided between white supremacists and potential Communists. He spent most of his career as art outspoken foe of the New Deal, the Fair Deal, labor leaders, foreigners and Negroes, and once blasted an anti-poll-tax bill as an "expression of venomous...
...hold a benefit for me." He pursued the dollar with the same single-mindedness that brought him two world championships-the welterweight (147 Ibs.) and middleweight (160 Ibs.) titles-and carried him through 137 professional fights with only three defeats. By last week, worth an estimated $300,000 from shrewd investments (real estate, a bar, a dry-cleaning establishment), he knew that the time had come to quit. Said Sugar Ray, in a flowery farewell to the ring: "I do not feel I can any longer give the public my best as they have come to recognize...
...first President and liberator of Cuba, has a sharp eye for the kind of gritty marital incidents that set a man & wife's teeth on edge. In piling most of the evidence and all of the sympathv on her heroine's side, she writes like a shrewd attorney for the plaintiff, but reads, finally, like a somewhat shallow judge of human relations...