Word: shrewd
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...moved a few years ago into a $100,000 house in Fort Lee, N.J. and settled down to highly polished respectability. But the Kefauver hearings turned an embarrassing spotlight on Joe; with four underworld partners, he was indicted for running a million-dollar gambling empire in New Jersey. Too shrewd to risk a jury trial, he threw himself on the mercy of the court...
When he was 15, Mohammed was sent to the province of Khurasan as financial agent, for his apprenticeship in public service. When he returned to Teheran ten years later, a shrewd, aloof young official, the Shah granted him the title "Mossadeq" ("One who has been tried, tested and found to be worthy...
...Russian tailor's son who learned politics in the political cauldrons of Massachusetts, Niles entered the White House under Harry Hopkins' banner, soon got to be one of President Roosevelt's six assistants with "a passion for anonymity." When Harry Truman moved in in 1945, shrewd Dave Niles stayed on, before long was the only New Deal relic left in the President's "little cabinet...
...movie's authentic toughness is supplied by its gangsters, notably Paul Stewart, playing a shrewd, efficient planner, and Jack Webb as an itchy-fingered gunman. The settings look at least as hard as the hoodlums: littered alleys, poolrooms, shabby hotels and stretches of industrial wasteland filmed on location in Gary, Ind., South Chicago and Los Angeles...
Some of the tricks are as old as magic itself. The quick-sprouting tree operates on a spring released off stage by a prop man. Other tricks depend on shrewd camera work, as when dancers' costumes change from black to white and, gradually, back to black again, simply by reversing the polarity (i.e., changing a positive picture to a negative picture) on the camera. The falling and rising water pail was more complicated. A tiny pail the size of a thimble was mounted on a transparent plastic disc which revolved in front of a revolving drum on which...