Word: sharpers
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...There are differences in coaching philosophy," Sanders said. "Some excellent coaches believe that the best way to keep your horses sharp is not to let them lay off. The more playing time they have, the sharper they are going...
...Sharper Focus. Never seriously shaken in the courtroom was the implication that someone had deliberately, although crudely, manipulated Miss Woods' recorder until satisfied that the 18.5-minute Watergate segment of the Haldeman-Nixon conversation was obliterated. The multiple short erasures were amateurish: a single long erasure would be far more likely to have been interpreted as an accident. Even after making all of the short starts and stops ?apparently listening to a portion, then erasing it, then moving on to another part?a shrewder operator would have activated a final continuous sweep of the tape past the erase head...
...week's testimony progressed, the focus in time and suspects gradually grew sharper. Ben-Veniste quizzed Louis B. Sims, chief of the technical security division of the Secret Service, which had installed and operated Nixon's secret recording system. Its existence had been publicly revealed by a former White House aide, Alexander Butterfield, on July 16 in the televised Senate Watergate hearings. He said Nixon had had the microphones installed in the summer of 1970 in his Oval Office, Executive Office Building hideaway and in the Cabinet Room to preserve a historical record. Most conversations on his business telephones also...
...lines became sharper this week as angry Radcliffe residents me to discuss possible moves they could take to overturn CHUL's action...
...have been considerably longer and rather less oblique. Vic would have been blessed and cursed by occasional shafts of self-knowledge. As it is, Voight's performance consists of careful character shadings that can only add tone to a silhouette. In more concise roles, the supporting performances are sharper. Carol Androsky as Vic's sister-in-law, who seems to dwell in the middle of some lunatic serenity; Art Metrano as Vic's anxious brother-in-law Jay David Swooze ("Just a formal handshake will be just fine for me, thanks"); E.J. Peaker as the imperious Janelle...