Word: shrewd
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...trig man who, in unguarded moments, resembles Charlie Butterworth with a mustache. He might be the man the French lexicographers meant when they defined petit bourgeois in the dictionary-respectable, thrifty and discreet; at home with account books but uneasy with the great books; shrewd and commonsensical, and sometimes, underneath the humdrum exterior, imaginatively simple. He slipped into the premiership of France like a little-known guest emerging from behind the draperies into the babbling center of a Parisian literary salon...
...precision locks which close the cell blocks of Alcatraz Prison. So many Tokyo banks installed Mosler's vaults that when the U.S. Army was searching for hidden hoards of Japanese gold and securities, Mosler could give them all the detailed floor plans they needed as well as shrewd hints where to look...
During those bloody, brawling years, Reuther collected two bad beatings and a crippled right arm, the result of an attempted assassination by shotgun. He also developed his talent for bare-knuckle politics, a shrewd publicity sense, and a reputation for brash, effective repartee. (Two weeks ago, when President-elect Eisenhower informed C.I.O. leaders that as a boy he had put in many a twelve-hour workday, Reuther was ready with a quick comeback. "General," said he, "you should have joined the union...
Jacobsen took over Amerada's presidency in 1929, when De Golyer stepped up to chairman.† He quickly made a series of shrewd deals (e.g., he bought 160 acres in California's Kettleman Hills for $200,000, sat by while others drilled, sold an undivided half interest in his lease for $8,600,000 after another company found oil), built up the cash Amerada needed to expand its oil hunting...
Frye foresees Naguib pulling off a shrewd political deal whereby British troops would leave the Suez Canal. If successful, he could become king and start a new dynastic order...