Word: sharper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...human bite is sometimes sharper than a serpent's tooth. A bite that is hard enough to break the skin, even with prompt treatment, may result in an amputation. If treatment is delayed twelve hours, the chances of amputation are increased threefold. In fact, said Dr. Otho C. Hudson of Hempstead, L.I., in last fortnight's New York State Journal of Medicine, human bites anywhere on the body are much more dangerous than animal bites (except, of course, those of rabid dogs). Reason: human mouths contain very destructive bacteria...
...week's end the Vatican's Osservatore Romano took a sharper stand: it denied the Stoneman "rumor." Further, it openly berated the Russians for not aiding the Warsaw Underground (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS). Said the London Observer: "Recent Russian overtures for Vatican friendship have found favor with certain church princes who still dream about Catholic expansion in Russia. The Pope, however, seems for the time being to have decided against reconciliation with Russia, and the fate of Catholic Poland provided his overriding motives...
...Peace but a Sword. The new Cabinet, strongest in 20 years, means not peace but a sharper sword. Its one objective is victory, Japanese style. Said Koiso: "I hope to attain our objective in close collaboration with our allies...
Then the Chinese Army turned on counterpressure. New troops came in from other districts, attacks grew sharper. In the face of this opposition the Japanese apparently began to withdraw. There were even reports that siege lines around Hengyang were cracking...
...minute intervals; and while he is busy with booby traps, poisons, axes, nooses and knives, one of those storms blows up that shakes the house and douses the lights. Once it encounters suitable weather, and has piled up enough corpses to throw the few jittery survivors into sharper relief, Ten Little Indians gets pretty menacing and tense; things happen, and the characters become more than toppling tenpins. But. the first act is talky and slow, and even the second act's murders are leisurely. And in terms of psychological interest, eight people with a motive for killing...