Word: sharpest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seven trading days, Douglas common stock sank 25¾ points to close last week at a 1966 low of 61¾, or 50⅛ points below its 111⅞ peak in February. Many stock prices have skidded since then in the wobbly market, but the Douglas drop is the sharpest in the $22 billion aerospace industry, inflicting a $263 million paper loss on investors...
...sharpest attack on Graham's methods came when he appeared on a BBC-TV interview program. One questioner charged that his emotional oratory had the same kind of hypnotic effect on a mass audience as had Hitler's; another railed at the "sanctified lies" of his campaign team and the "engineered emotion" of his crusades. Coolly, Billy replied that Winston Churchill had also used all the tricks of popular oratory. "Jesus Christ himself, and the Apostle Paul, talked to great crowds of people," he added...
...showed an increase. This time the index was up by 3.5%, to a level of 112.5, meaning that last month it required $112.50 to buy what a consumer was able to purchase for $100 during the base period. When added to the January-March increases, it represented the sharpest four-month hike in the cost of living in the last 15 years...
Salesman had its flaws. The scenes between the agonized Loman sons-alternately hating and loving the man who had filled them full of ballooning, worthless dreams-were edgy rather than sharp. And television's code blunted many of the play's sharpest lines (even "By God, I was rich" became "By George, I was rich"), needlessly sacrificing Miller's most formidable faculty: language...
...comers in the company-and he was tapped to attend "the Greenbrier group," a triennial meeting in West Virginia where key managers debate grand strategy. Rising on the company escalator, he was moved up to general manager of Cadillac in the 1950s, the era when its cars sprouted their sharpest fins. When, in 1962, he leaped over several seniors to become executive vice president in charge of the overseas group and other branches, he became the front-runner for the presidency-the man lifted, majestically and somewhat mystically, from among tens of thousands by G.M.'s legendary management system...