Word: sharpest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...surprisingly, the Philadelphia gag (which is not legally binding) roused hot criticism from the local press, police, prosecutors, and even Mayor James H. J. Tate, who told the police to ignore it. But the sharpest words came from a less predictable source. "A free and unfettered press is indispensable to a free country," said Chief Justice John C. Bell Jr. of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. If it is "muzzled or gagged, crime will run even more rampant." Added Justice Michael A. Musmanno: "Curbing crime news is like recommending that no one talk about cancer, on the theory that silence will...
Roth is by no means a shoddy craftsman, but he ought not to be read too critically. He communicates indirectly, and if we focus on apparent awkwardness we miss the point. He makes us keep our distance, yet be involves us in his tale more fully that the sharpest plot-maker. The hideous din of a guilty thought, the whirling of noise and action about a point in time, a sense of inexplicable release--all these Roth evokes with mysterious ease. Call It Sleep is a quiet masterpiece that grows in the mind even after one puts it down...
Clothing is completely up to you, but make sure that you are warm enough. The sharpest and tightest pants with stripes on the sides don't help you in subzero temperatures unless you have long underwear. Snow bunnies may admire you beautiful haircut and lots of grease (kid ... ) in it, but frozen ears can harm this picture considerably...
...prospect of pocketing another one-half G.M. share attracted so many buyers to Du Pont that the company's stock made one of its sharpest single-week gains in recent years before giving way to profit taking. The happy windfall for shareholders will deprive Du Pont of a rich lode of dividends that in the past has provided one-third of its earnings. For almost any other company, this loss of earning power would have been a severe blow. But Du Pont's profits from chemicals alone have been rising so rapidly that its profit margin is among...
...Washington, Senate Democrats must decide who their new majority whip will be. The current favorite is Rhode Island's John Pastore, one of the Senate's sharpest debaters and the 1964 Democratic Convention keynoter. Other possibilities: Louisiana's Russell Long, Maine's Edmund Muskie, Michigan's Philip Hart, Hawaii's Daniel Inouye, Connecticut's Thomas Dodd, Florida's George Smathers...