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Word: sharpe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crimson batsmen did not help their own cause, though, blowing solid scoring chances in the first and the sixth. In the first, Charlie Santos-Buch led off with a sharp single, but Blue Hen catcher Herb Orensky gunned him down stealing...

Author: By John Donley, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Crimson Ousted From NCAA Baseball Tourney | 5/26/1978 | See Source »

...didn't return serve well," Chaikovsky said last night, "and Anastoupolo's serve should have been eaten up. We just weren't real sharp...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Pair Loses in NCAA Doubles | 5/26/1978 | See Source »

...sharp protest, the Chinese accused Moscow of taking "a grave, calculated step" aimed at further worsening relations between the two countries and demanded both a Kremlin apology and punishment of the troops involved. "Otherwise," it added, there would be "consequences." Thereupon Moscow expressed "regrets" and claimed that its border guards "had inadvertently" entered China while "pursuing a dangerous armed criminal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Peeking at the Chinese Card | 5/22/1978 | See Source »

...specific cardiovascular problem also associated with Marfan's syndrome: imperfect closure of the valves of the aorta, the large artery that carries blood from the heart. The clue appeared in a picture of the President taken in 1863. Lincoln had his legs crossed, and in an otherwise sharp photo, the left foot-suspended in the air -is blurred. When viewing the print. Lincoln asked why the foot was fuzzy. A friend familiar with physiology suggested that the throbbing arteries in the leg might have caused some movement. Lincoln promptly crossed his legs and watched. "That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Abe's Malady | 5/22/1978 | See Source »

...indiscriminate sex orgies. They try to mate with sticks, stones, vegetation or anything else in the vicinity. However they react, they are seldom able to find the available females; they soon become so accustomed to the scent that they no longer respond to it. The result: a sharp drop in the population of caterpillar young -and crop damage. In field tests near Blythe, Calif., last year, only 10% of cotton crops treated with Gossyplure were damaged, compared with 80% in unsprayed areas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: It Makes Scents | 5/22/1978 | See Source »

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