Word: sharpest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Commission saves its sharpest criticism for the federal agency whose specific duty it is to protect the life of the President: the U.S. Secret Service...
...March, a group of local union presidents from G.M. plants staged a brief uprising against Reuther at the United Auto Workers' convention in Atlantic City, demanded and won a tough approach toward G.M. in this year's bargaining. When auto negotiations began in earnest, Reuther reserved his sharpest barbs for G.M., calling it a "huge, dehumanized production machine." When Reuther picked Chrysler as his first strike target, union members from G.M. accused him of selling them out because of his fear of "the big one." Reuther succumbed to the strike mood of G.M.'s workers, many...
...first North Vietnamese PT boat attack on U.S. ships, plunged 7½-points Tuesday after news of the second attack, rallied on Wednes day for a fractional gain. Then on Thursday, as rumors spread of possible Red Chinese involvement, the market tumbled 9.65 points - to 823.40 - in the sharpest one-day break since President Kennedy's assassination. The week's total decline, after a 5¾-point rally at week's end: 12 points, to 829.16. It was Wall Street's classic way of ducking distant gunfire...
Tetracycline is one of the most familiar and widely used antibiotics for the cure of infections. It has no effect against cancer. But now it seems that by a peculiar quirk, tetracycline may become one of the diagnostician's sharpest tools for cancer detection. And early detection is half the battle in curing many forms of the disease...
Viewed with the naked eye or the world's biggest telescope, the moon looks flat. Because of its great distance, the sharpest irregularities on its surface show only because of the shadows that they cast in slanting sunlight. But the moon is more rugged than Afghanistan; when earthly astronauts land there, they will need the best possible contour maps to guide them through the precipitous mountains that hide just over the lunar horizon. Last week NASA's moon pioneers were beginning to plot their first explorations, using an entirely new set of maps made by the Army Corps...