Word: sharpest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Good Politics? In spite of the most careful Gallup polls or the sharpest Senatorial calculations, no man could say for certain how a majority of U.S. soldiers would vote next year. No Senator was any too happy at the thought of ten million decisive, unpredictable votes swamping the ballot boxes in 1944. A coalition of GOPsters and conservative Democrats did the heavy work in killing the Lucas-Green bill. But the soldier who goes with out a vote cannot put the full blame on the old anti-New Deal coalition. With clear-eyed candor, New Mexico's suave Dennis...
...Heel & Toe. The pre-invasion pattern was sharpest in the Mediterranean. Allied planes, sweeping up by day & night from North African and Sicilian bases, ripped Italy's communications below the Naples-Foggia line...
Then last week, as peace stocks forged ahead to a new peak, war stocks took their sharpest hop in two months, to come more in line with realities...
...sharpest religio-psychological writer of the season is an elderly devil named Screwtape, whose letters of instruction have somehow fallen into the hands of C. S. Lewis, Fellow of Oxford's Magdalen College. (Writes Mr. Lewis in the preface to THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS (Macmillan; $1.50): "I have no intention of ex plaining how. . . .") In a series of Chesterfieldian letters, written from the cozy depths of Hell, Screwtape advises his inexperienced nephew Wormwood on the best means of eternally damning the soul of his "patient." The "patient," a young Englishman who is never named, "backslides" into religion, is "rescued...
...House last week gave Franklin Roosevelt one of the sharpest rebukes ever dealt a U.S. President. The Disney rider passed, 268-to-129, repealing Franklin Roosevelt's directive of Oct. 3, 1942, which clamped a $25,000-net limit on salaries...