Word: shrewd
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South African Communists watched, waited and acted. They sent shrewd, handsome Sam Kahn out on the hustings in the Western constituency of the Cape Province. Kahn campaigned sharply against Malan's apartheid (racial segregation) policy, condemned "the Nazi doctrine of white supremacy...
...present system is that it places a variable factor between the voter and the official election result. Right now several electors in the South are talking about throwing their votes to Truman, despite the statistical fact that the voters chose J. Strom Thurmond. Such a move might be shrewd politically, but it would violate the principle of free election...
...Minister of Agriculture. Kaplan is Minister of Finance, and so it goes." "All right," said the friend, "so make me Minister of Air." "But there's no such post," exclaimed the Premier. "What would a Minister of Air do without any aircraft?" The friend gave him a long, shrewd look and shrugged his shoulders. "So," he said, "what is Kaplan doing...
...shrewd skipper, who made up in ingenuity what his boat lacked in speed, would order his excellent band to play loudly when a rival drew alongside. All the passengers on the other boat would rush to the near side to listen, heeling their own vessel over until its other paddle wheel flailed helplessly half out of water...
...editors of Komsomolskaya Pravda were not amused. An investigation had been made of Miss Stepanchenko. Without doubt, she had been cultivating multiple boy friends in order to make a shrewd, calculated choice of a husband, just like any common bourgeoise...