Word: shrewd
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...Egyptian government had read a shrewd lesson from the doings in Iran: defy the once mighty lion, and Britain will send, not battleships, but emissaries with offers. Last week old (74), ailing Mustafa El Nahas Pasha, a spent revolutionary and perennial Premier, began to apply the lesson: he demanded that Britain get out of Egypt and the Sudan...
...clamorous minority, crying foul and arguing noisily every play of the game. They will be hard to handle. However, a precedent exists for handling such difficulties, and Andrei Gromyko, head of the U.S.S.R. delegation, should be the first to recognize it. It was set by his boss, cynically shrewd Andrei Vishinsky, at the ten-power Danube Conference in Belgrade in mid-summer...
...Lungs. Luisa María has not yet given up hope that her dream man, Pretender Don Juan, son of the late King Alfonso XIII, will come to the throne. If only, she says, he were surrounded in his Portuguese exile by brave men instead of a "few shrewd but overcautious politicians." If only she could talk to him-"If I can't convince him, I'll go to the United States. I need more space. The air in Franco's Spain is not good for my lungs...
...they found that high construction costs would prevent them from selling aluminum profitably for less than 22? a lb., v. the Big Three's price of 18? based on equipment built at cheaper costs. Finally, the field was narrowed to one enthusiast. He was Leo M. Harvey, a shrewd Californian who had built up an $8,500,000 aluminum extrusion business, Harvey Machine Co., and already had sewed up a supply of cheap power, the prime essential for aluminum, at Montana's Hungry Horse Dam. Interior agreed that if Harvey could raise $7,000,000, it would approve...
...Johnson became an apprentice barber. At 21, he opened a shop of his own in Natchez and prospered. When he married, in 1835, he was a solid man of property, owner of four slaves and the most prosperous barbershop in town. That same year, he began to keep a shrewd and candid diary; when he died in 1851, shot in a boundary dispute by a half-breed, the diary filled 2,000 pages. Rediscovered almost 90 years later in the attic of his old house, William Johnson's Natchez is one of those authentic windfalls that period scholars festoon...