Word: sharpen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conceived by some of Johnson's ranking advisers in the Administration and the party, his strategy will encompass five major factors. They are to: 1) freshen the face and sharpen the thrust of Great Society proposals; 2) employ Administration officials, with the exception of the Secretaries of State and Defense, as traveling evangelists for the Johnsonian word in the next few months; 3) stress, in the post-convention period, the human factor rather than the statistical and fiscal in defend ing domestic programs, with heavy use of sophisticated television advertising; 4) revive the enervated Democratic Party apparatus, with emphasis...
...Kopkind and Chomsky, who reflect the opinions of the Review's principal founder, Jason Epstein, and its editor, Robert Silvers. "I wanted to write critical reviews," says Coser, a professor of sociology at Brandeis, "not the kind of demolition jobs they asked for. They kept telling me to sharpen the knife more." Like the Review, Coser opposes the war in Viet Nam and considers him self a member in good standing of the left." But in becoming more extremist in its politics," he says, "the Review has taken a very narrow, destructive line...
...Complaint. Established in 1952 under the Secretary of Defense, NSA, like CIA, is an outgrowth of the nation's post-World War II effort to centralize, tighten and sharpen the role of U.S. intelligence in the cold war. Almost unknown to the public, NSA has clearly been more successful at warding off journalistic attention than its sister agency. It is symptomatic of the extreme secrecy shrouding NSA that its director, Lieut. General Marshall S. Carter, is a nonentity even to Washington insiders. Yet, like CIA's, the agency's tentacles reach deeply into the academic community...
...taping process tends to sharpen a professor's delivery. Pauses and diversions that seem natural in a live setting glare painfully from a TV tube. So do a professor's platform idiosyncrasies-a nervous cough or twitch of the head. After watching themselves on tape, professors "learn what even their best friends won't tell them," notes Donley Feddersen, director of telecommunications at Indiana. They usually then work to improve their delivery. For some, there is little hope. "If you have a really bad professor, he is going to be worse on television," says the University...
...effect a floating bomb. Then she was fitted with six Sofar charges with hydrostatic fuses set to shiver her bulkheads automatically under the pressure of 4,000 ft. of water. One purpose of the planned undersea blast was to help the Pentagon's Advanced Research Projects Agency sharpen scientific techniques for detection of bootleg underground atomic tests. It was also a convenient way to dispose of munitions that become unpredictable with...