Word: sharpening
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Urging his followers to sharpen their spears, KADU's fiery William Murgor warned ominously last fortnight: "If it's clear that KANU has succeeded in bamboozling the British against our plans for a future Kenya, I'll blow a whistle from London and you will know there must be war." Opening the conference, Britain's Colonial Secretary Reginald Maudling insisted that Britain will not free the colony "unless we can be sure that we shall be handing over authority in Kenya to a stable regime, free from oppression, free from violence, free from racial discrimination...
...attacked with visible annoyance the kind of "political aloofness" that subverts the federal idea. "The fashion has been to exalt the detached surveyor of the cluttered political scene untroubled by the noisy turmoil beneath him...uncontaminated by the touch of reality." The need to "sharpen the debate between parties and within the parties...is denied or evaded by a condescension or contempt for the political life...
...colossus. But Chambers expects no trouble from the easy British antimonopoly laws. He argues that the takeover, which would give I.C.I, a full range of synthetic fibers to compete with its two top foreign rivals, Du Pont and France's Rhone-Poulenc/ Rhodiaceta, is primarily designed to sharpen Britain's competitive position in the Common Market. Says Chambers: "We are fighting on a world scale. We cannot be parochial about...
...extremists for more or less the same reasons. Mr. Cousins would like nothing better than to lead a general strike, and, if he had the chance, to nationalize practically every major industry. At the moment when Mr. Gaitskell pleas earnestly for a classless society the leftists manage to sharpen and accentuate class differences...
...game should give Bill Humenuk an opportunity to sharpen up his passing game. Against Tufts last week, the sophomore quarterback put on a dazzling show, passing for two touchdowns and running for another...