Word: sharpest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sharpest departure from western formula: oldtimer Gabby Hayes as a bank president...
...Sharpest observations on contemporary convert-making come, as might be expected, from the most famed proselytizer of all, Msgr. Fulton J. Sheen. Modern converts, he writes, unlike those of past generations, have nothing to be converted from ("It is no longer Protestantism from which we convert souls; it is confusionism...
...years since Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto espoused "an open, legalized community of women," few subjects have been more frequently disputed by Marxists. Lenin, in one of his sharpest departures from Marxism, vehemently rejected "free love" on the ground that "love is more than drinking a glass of water." But Alexandra Kollontay, who instituted the Soviet system of easy divorce in 1917, was called "Russia's only real Communist" because of her advocacy of free love
...with "Peanut" and "Old Softie" came in September 1944. In nis disgust with Chiang, he wrote to Mrs. Stilwell, "Why can't sudden death for once strike in the proper place?" Two days later he was jubilant. He finally got from Roosevelt what Editor White describes as "the sharpest-worded American demand for reform and action on the part of the Chinese government that the war had evoked...
...sharpest breaks in the history of the index, but it was far from matching the drop of some 20% in grain prices in three weeks. But Clague hoped that more of the lower prices would soon be passed on, once businessmen were sure that grain prices were going to stay down...