Word: sharper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been able to apply Joe Martin's pragmatic philosophy-"I've found out that in the long run what's good for one section is pretty much good for the country"-and not worry too much about the consequences. Republican leaders would now have to look sharper and farther. Generally, they were sober men and aware of their new responsibilities; they were ready for the big test...
...winds that blow Spain toward economic bankruptcy are sharper now than ever before. High prices for food fan the little man's desperation to a sharper pitch. The stink of governmental inefficiency and corruption is rising above normal. But the best guess is that Generalissimo Francisco Franco will probably not reap his whirlwind just yet. For he holds as tight as ever the only windbreaks that count-the army and the police...
...philosophical overtones about faith-which blot out the earlier and sharper issue of compromise-Joan of Lorraine is too trickily written, too full of backstage triviality, too discontinuous in its drama to be more than a serious stunt. Yet Joan's story, even when told piecemeal and with no particular eloquence, can still vibrate when enacted by someone suggesting Joan's stature-as Actress Bergman proves...
Harding & Hootchy-Kootchy. Austin's teammates in the U.S. delegation: ¶| Thomas Terry Connally, 69, Democratic Senator from Texas and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who has a much sharper mind than his flowing white mane, flowing string tie and flowing oratory indicate. ¶ Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg. 62, Republican Senator from Michigan, a harness maker's son, who got into politics via journalism by helping Isolationist Warren Harding write campaign speeches, and who has become (with Secretary Byrnes) the architect of practical postwar U.S. internationalism...
Amid the popular clamor for a quick peace and an end to bickering, the sharper observers saw plainly that if the U.S. and Britain had not been frank and firm and patient with Russia in the Allied Control Council for Germany and on the Eastern European treaties, the chances of an enduring German settlement would be slimmer than they...