Word: sharpers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kewpies & Creditors. Frank Costello, businessman extraordinary, was born after that. The tale of his ventures and triumphs emerged only in jerky scenes, badly lighted and often confused. But each time he appeared, momentarily in the light, Frank Costello looked bigger, sharper, more assured-and richer...
...foreign policy of the U. S. is against Russia and sin, in favor of prosperity and happiness. These goals have recently begun to seem somewhat inadequate to direct specific operations. The U. S., in other words, is in need of sharper definition of its foreign policy. It cannot look to Washington; Harry Truman is a public opinion President, seeking to follow, not to lead, the people. Who, then, makes public opinion? One of the most revered (even though not the most widely read) of those who try to mold opinion is Walter Lippmann. For some time he has been unhappy...
From the Grand Plateau (12,880 ft), the climber can choose the path to the right or the sharper but less windswept one to the left. The thrills are much the same either way. At the top, the Alpinist may experience what one veteran climber called "the feeling of release and mystic union upon reaching the goal." All climbers do not attain that experience. Last month, eight climbers were caught in a blizzard near the top and froze to death...
...individual services, the Associated Press "does a workmanlike job," but should have a "sharper approach...
Scrambling to his feet, the bull, wavering neither to left nor right, charged head-on for the jeep that had goaded him. As the jeep pulled back, he saw a picador with a sharper lance astride a well-padded horse nearby and whirled to charge the horse. The riders of the jeep were quick to approve. Above the young bull's number in a thick registry book, a rider initialed in red ink the letters B.P. (for Bravo Pronto). That meant that two years later, on some Sunday afternoon, in some jam-packed arena in Latin America, the fighting...