Word: sharpest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...loath to cooperate, for a very good reason: they hate to lose their help. They will sometimes even go so far as to give a nurse a bad report in order to hang onto her. Civilian nurses, admitting that few of them are downright eager to join, turned their sharpest words on the Army Nurse Corps. Complaints from nurses in the Corps, they said, are enough to cool their ardor. Some of these complaints are just normal gripes: U.S. women hate to be ordered around, particularly by other women; homesick Army nurses may exaggerate their woes; many gripes are directed...
...President had turned the problem over to two of his sharpest troubleshooters...
...hectic days the Dow-Jones averages of industrials tumbled to 156.34-down 5.18 points. Rail averages were down 2.23 points. On Friday, when traders unloaded 2,000,000 shares, the drop in values was the sharpest for any day in 16 months...
...will. This is obviously not for lack of looks. Years ago her good friend Quentin Reynolds gave her a permanent nickname : The Face. Her good friend Voldemar Vetluguin, a one time editor of Redbook, has called it "the most beautiful face this side of Paradise." (He added: "And the sharpest tongue this side of Hell.") And until she got tired of the work, this seraphic property made her the highest-paid model in America...
Vocal portions of Canada's population were unimpressed. Veterans' organizations, in particular, denounced Ottawa by letter and telegram. But the sharpest retort to the Prime Minister came from ex-Minister Ralston...