Word: sharpest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sharpest risk is lung cancer, from which cigarette smokers have a death rate almost eleven times as high as that for nonsmokers. Smokers' death rates from other diseases are: bronchitis and emphysema, 6.1 times the rate for nonsmokers; cancer of the larynx, 5.4 times as high; ulcers of the stomach and duodenum, 2.8; cancer of the bladder, 1.9; coronary artery disease, 1.7; hypertensive heart disease, 1.5. (Heart and artery diseases combined cause many more premature deaths than does lung cancer...
...sharpest battle in U.S. banking has been fired up by handsome James J. Saxon, 49, who as Comptroller of the Currency supervises the 4,500 nationally chartered banks. "The commercial banking system needs rescuing," says Saxon grandly-and he has set out on what he considers a rescue mission by permitting national banks to branch out more freely than state banks, which are regulated by state banking commissions. By liberalizing branching policies, he aims to break the hold that many small-town and suburban bankers have on their areas. Critical state bankers charge that Saxon's expansion plans would...
...their trade with that of 18 former African colonies. Having made Greece an associate member, the Six next month will give Turkey similar status. Among themselves, they have moved well along toward harmonizing their controversial and complicated business turnover taxes and centralizing their banking and budget policies. But the sharpest spur to increasing economic union is the unflagging strength of the huge European market, second only to the U.S. in size...
...must raise doubts in the minds of the Negroes of Albany and the nation about the Attorney General's determination to secure equal justice for all citizens. This destructive action can only serve to thwart, rather than serve, the cause of justice in the South. It merits the sharpest criticism...
...admire. You say Saint-Laurent is staying small . . . good. Cardin has talent, but he makes too many shocks." It was Paris' irrepressible High Fashion Doyenne Gabrielle ("Coco") Chanel, 80, so-soing this and high-hatting that, while Women's Wear Daily took notes. But Coco saved the sharpest needle for her high-class clientele. "They're all so famous and well dressed and they never pay their bills-never. It's a form of stealing. And the princesses, some of them, they're the worst of the lot. When they write asking the price...