Word: sharper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tenet of British and U.S. planning: no second front, in the Mediterranean or elsewhere, will be attempted until it is almost certain to succeed. The Russians may think this conception is over-timid and wrong. Others, like Airman de Seversky, think it overlooks opportunities to shorten the war by sharper, more imaginative strategy. But, for better or for worse, it is the adopted conception...
Most observers could tell from a person's appearance whether he was bold or fearful, gay or morose, intelligent or stupid. They were less successful in detecting inner feelings. But with training in sharper observation, the judges' appraisals grew more penetrating; for example, by noting exaggerated mannerisms and subtle hesitations they could determine when boldness merely cloaked a feeling of inferiority...
...letter from the Southern Presbyterians was sharper. "Our Church will not be deterred by this campaign," declared the protest from the Church's General Assembly at Montreal, N.C., as delegates formulated plans for missionary work in Latin American lands. "If the hierarchy is right in insisting that Protestant missions should cease in Latin America because Protestants are in the minority in those countries then, on the same principle, Roman Catholic propaganda should be excluded from the United States...
...ever forget. . . . The moon was just coming out. The sky was crystal-clear, and the night was bitter cold. . . . We had to cross over a mountain range. There were steep grades and switchback turns, and some of the trucks had to back and fill to make the sharper turns. . . . We had long waits. . . . We would shut off our motors and then the night would be deathly silent except for a subdued undertone of grinding motors far ahead...
...first Washington Merry-Go-Round. Canadians flinched and chortled at the brash impertinences and superficialities of The People's Mouths, also found many an acid tintype of their politicians. Many were aware that Cross memorized timetables and collected other useless information but few suspected the sharper side of his nature...