Word: sharpe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sleeping families. When dawn broke, the fierce August sun burned down on hundreds of square miles of earthquake-ravaged cities and towns. The densely populated industrial heartland of the country lay in ruin, some 40,000 buildings smashed by nature's power into mountains of shattered concrete and sharp, mangled steel. Ghostly voices cried out from dark holes beneath the rubble, pleading for rescue...
...prime candidate for the long-sought evolutionary link between Lucy's species and the first humans. But the researchers also found that nearby animal bones dating from the same period had been butchered with stone implements. Cut marks on one antelope jawbone suggest that the hominids used a sharp stone flake to remove the animal's tongue. The leg bone of another animal is scarred by cuts, chop marks and signs of hammering, evidence that it was scraped clean of meat and bashed open to expose the nutritious marrow...
...receptionist at the stuffy Academy of Material Science in London. Pouring her heart out in a novel-cum-diary, she is attempting to figure out a tumultuous love affair. But while this subject has been handled much better by more sophisticated writers, the author really comes alive in her sharp descriptions of the deadly pettiness of office life: who sits with whom in the company cafeteria; what the people who answer the phones really think; and how a drone can actually blossom into a happy, fulfilled, creative human being...
...example, the pregnant-stripper constituency wrapped up. And he will continue to build on that base, according to his friend Tim Burke, the Hamilton County Democratic chairman who is pressing Springer to run. "Jerry has always had a Kennedyesque stump style," says Burke. "I think you'd see a sharp distinction from Senator Mike DeWine on things like this goofy...
...SHARP AND STYLISH For years, digital camera owners have lived like second-class citizens, settling for grainy pics while they waited for prices to fall on high-res models. The wait paid off this spring, when Ricoh, Sony and others introduced the first sub-$1,000, 2-megapixel cameras with near film quality. Now Yashica is improving on the standard with its Samurai 2100DG, which boasts the first 4X optical zoom for sharper pics, and a one-hand design to help eliminate blurring caused by accidental shaking of the camera. Due out Aug. 20, the Samurai weighs...