Word: shrewd
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...Dodero properties were worth much more than the government paid for them and the fact that Don Alberto would sell at such a bargain price left Argentines breathless. Whatever the government pressure, the public could only conclude that Dodero knew when to get out. Apparently shrewd Don Alberto foresaw no future for free enterprisers like himself in Perón's Argentina...
Their alarm was not shared by the New York Times's shrewd diplomatic correspondent, James Reston. Wrote Reston: "There are many ways in which a Secretary of State can present a treaty to the Senate but the best way is to tell the Senators everything. This astonishes them, then bores them stiff, and eventually minimizes the ordeal...
Next day the producer's wife, a shrewd judge of publicity and an amateur spiritualist, packed Erica and the jacket off to a professional medium. Big, bosomy Medium Jane Harley quivered when she touched the possessed garment. Such a treasure was almost too good to be true. She dragged it over her plump arms and promptly went into hysterics. Then the stage manageress, an old trouper herself, had a go at it, and tore the garment off. "I'm choking!" she screamed, and a very convincing scream...
...poet, journalist and orator, Muñoz Marin has combined high principles and shrewd politics to fashion a career that astonishes the friends and enemies who, only a few years ago, regarded him as dilettante, dreamer, revolutionary and bohemian. Muñoz is a husky, stoop-shouldered man with eloquent dark eyes, a big nose, a cleft chin and furrowed brow. Except when he is amused or surprised, his face has a kind of built-in sad-angry expression...
...they hit that tomato juice when they've got a head on," a shrewd young thing observed...