Word: sharpest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sharpest statement came from D. R. Nicholson, who came to the U.S. with a British trade delegation. He was amazed to see how much harder Americans worked than Britons. "We in this country . . . have not got the same vitality." Added Nicholson: "Enough food is wasted in New York in one night to feed England for a week...
...last chances for averting a strike disappeared last week when young Henry Ford, white hope of the union, turned out to be no comfort at all. U.A.W. leaders had counted heavily on a generous offer close to their own demand for a 30% increase. Instead Ford gave them their sharpest come-uppance...
...partisan stand on Chi nese politics, and so avoids the pros & cons of the Kuomintang-Communist feud. His concern is with the people and their land. He is as sensitive to the landscape as a super-polychromatic film. "I am obsessed," he writes, "with life and death at their sharpest points...
...Gumps, Gasoline Alley, and he seems to have a sneak ing admiration for Li'l Abner ("sexy and synthetic pastoralism" done with "manifest cleverness.") But, he says, "there seems to be nothing in the good comics which keeps readers from liking the others." He saves his sharpest slings for Superman's female counterpart, a four-year-old character named Wonder Woman, who is described by her creator as "the girl from Paradise Isle, beautiful as Aphrodite, wise as Athena, stronger than Hercules and swifter than Mercury." Wonder Woman swears "By Zeus!" and regularly prays to Aphrodite-which...
...group of Oxford economists opposed Bretton Woods because it "tended to outlaw discriminatory practices" held to be necessary in Britain's desperate debtor position. The Beaverbrook papers criticized Bretton Woods as a return to an inflexible gold standard. Sharpest attacks came from a "young Tory" M.P., Robert John Graham Boothby, once Churchill's private secretary, who charged that advocates interpreted Bretton Woods as the gold standard in the U.S. and as a flexible system in Britain. With all the weight of his authority, Lord Keynes called Bretton Woods "the exact opposite of the gold standard...