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...unlimited class, mammoth Dave Gill mauled shorter, spirited Johnny Watkins for six minutes, but the latter's sharper, stinging punches won him the decision. Al Petite took 125-pound laurels on default from Phil O'Keefe...
...frustrating chicanery. Bills arrive promptly; and rigid, relentless machinery is put into operation for their payment. Erring students, tottering on the verge of probation, find all their past cuts carefully noted at the Dean's Office. And, when crafty Jawn Harvard is proctoring, his eyes are sharper than a hawk's from centuries of administering examinations to some of the cleverest brains America has produced...
Next day at a Laborite caucus, Bevin faced sharper questions from his own party critics. He told what a Laborite described as a "sob story": had he been able to deal solely with British Jewry, a solution could have been found long ago, but the dangerous influence of American Jewry had been at work and robbed him of any chance of success. Buck-toothed Konni Zilliacus, pro-Soviet Laborite, tossed a charge of "playing power politics," accused Bevin of letting the strategic Iraq-Palestine pipeline † stand in the way of any solution. Reported one M.P.: "Ernie in his most...
...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...