Word: sharpest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gutter. The fighting is sharpest in the streets and in city slums, in small, crowded buildings marked by neon-lighted crosses in the midst of dark Skid Rows. The army regards such positions as its most important beachheads in the Devil's territory. Captains Olive McKeown and Luella Larder, of the army's Greater New York division, command one such corps (church) at 349 Bowery. One night last week, as they had hundreds of other times, they gathered to their fold some 200 men-refugees from the saloons attracted by amplified phonograph music, drawn by hunger, curiosity...
Fixed Ideas. Sawyer also issued a pointed warning to farmers and labor-the sharpest rebuke yet heard from a member of the Truman Administration. "Some so-called liberals," he said, "have adopted . . . the fixed idea that any increase in purchasing power of any one group is good no matter what its effect may be on other groups. To assume, however, that we can continue at all times and places to increase the share of the worker and the farmer without concern for the need for capital savings and the incentive of the businessman is out of keeping with the liberal...
...largely because the Socialists resented the frustration of M. Moch. M. Auriol next wistfully beckoned to an eminent Popular Republican, Georges Bidault, first Foreign Minister of the Fourth Republic. M. Bidault would undoubtedly exert himself to the utmost, for of the three center parties the Popular Republicans have the sharpest fear of parliamentary dissolution and new elections (the Popular Republicans anticipate wholesale defections to the Gaullists). By a majority vote the deputies could bring about dissolution at any time, and the longer the crisis went on the closer came the specter of dissolution...
...Ethel Barrymore, in the part of the dying old aristocrat, there can be nothing but praise. The most striking "character" in the movie, her quick wit and quicker tongue provide some of the sharpest and best-aimed assaults the film can offer. Her advice to Pinky, "Be yourself," is the key to understanding the moral and psychological conflict which are presented...
...varsity football team yesterday pranced through one of its longest and sharpest practice sessions in the last fortnight. It was devoted to the usual Tuesday chores--offensive and defensive scrimmaging, dummy drills, corrections, and a preliminary setting of defenses for Cornell...