Word: sharper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sweeps all before him except the final prize, the ivory-fair Roxane. His winning love speeches he puts into the mouth of a handsome dolt, for her sake. The motif is noble, yet it shrinks to the simple moral that it takes more than a sharp tongue, a sharper sword, and a magnificent soul to convince the right woman. This is not sound, inspired drama, nor is Rostand to be rated as a major dramatic poet. But the theatre thrives on striking situations and instantaneous effects, and of these Rostand is the master...
...there is only one certain class of men in the Navy who disapprove of the new-type Navy uniform suggested, and these are the "sour old regulars." Gentlemen, we believe that well over 70% of the reserves agree with us when we say that there isn't a sharper looking uniform in the service for enlisted men than that which the Navy has today. ... So don't hurry to throw that old sea bag to the deep...
Underlying reason for De Gaulle's resignation was the growing cleavage between Left and Right. It became sharper last week when the Communists and Socialists decided to coordinate their tactics more closely. In the Constituent Assembly the Communist-Socialist coalition was maneuvering to give the Fourth Republic a constitution that would make an all-powerful legislature and a weak executive. De Gaulle had insisted that France needed a stronger administration on the U.S. constitutional model. The same left-wing coalition again insisted that military appropriations be cut 20% in favor of reconstruction funds. De Gaulle had argued that France...
...clerk tried to smile. Pushing the bulge to a sharper point, the sailor again ordered: "C'mere." The clerk bolted out the front door...
...Eager applicants for concessions had been sitting around in Teheran for months. Least pressing perhaps was the U.S.: Washington's concern with declining reserves had not yet reached the stage where it called for the use of aggressive oil diplomacy in Iran. The British thirst was sharper. Dependent entirely on oil from abroad, Britain could not afford to pass up any opportunity. She had played the politics of oil longer, more successfully than anyone else. Now she was ready to play again...