Word: sharpen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hard times will almost certainly sharpen social and class conflicts. A recession could stampede many people into seeking solutions on the extreme right or left...
Students are free to smoke in the toilet and take food into the classroom. They sharpen their wits by playing a classroom version of the television game show Jeopardy. Field trips have included a canoe trip to learn firsthand how pollutants poison a river. A recent guest lecturer gave a frank talk on how to run a quick-fry chicken outlet...
Samuel Johnson once remarked that there is nothing like waiting to be hanged to sharpen a man's faculties. So it is with Skelton from the moment a last horizon is penciled in a few inches from his nose. He designs the skiff along the firm specifications of his daydreams. He begins to fall in love with his girl. Most of all, he seeks links between himself, his father, and his grandfather, an energetic old crook of limit less cynicism, "bilking everyone and being down right fatherly about it." His preference in sexual foreplay is to jump around...
...houses exists on this level, most of it runs through the channels--or slips through the fingers--of popularizers and funny men in the pink-gloved Shavian tradition. But playing the dialectical scales with a ten-foot pole of fashionable sentiment tends to lopsided results. Such practices may sharpen the edge of wit but they blunt, if not miss, the point of dialectics. Hence the temptation to subscribe to the thesis that whatever the depth and seriousness of mind a dialectical command of reality requires, it must be incompatable with the temperamental high-jinks needed to produce...
...referring to bisexuals) "AM-FM." When Dolly divorces Smackenfelt for Zap Spontini, an advertising man and lousy Sunday painter, Blodgett is rewarded. Smackenfelt marries his aunt-in-law and settles down to an excellent relationship, sexually and otherwise. Ginger pays the bills, leaving the unemployed actor time to sharpen his theatrical skills...