Word: sharpest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rest of the material on war, and there is unfortunately a great deal more, is best left undiscussed. Lampoon humor appears sharpest when allowed to wander outside the constraints of the particular topic. Cartoonist David McClelland, for example, is funniest when he is being irrelevant ("Where is Krishna Menon now that we need him?"), which happily he is often...
...Another inflationary sign came last week, when the Federal Reserve Board announced that during November, the nation's industrial output took its sharpest monthly jump in three years-rising 2.6 points on the board's index, to 159% of the 1957-59 base period...
...Brandy is de bottles on de shelf," said Hark. He began to scramble to his feet. "I fix de brandy fo' you, massah." But again Cobb motioned him back with a brisk wave of his hand.... Something about the man offended me, filled me with the sharpest displeasure, and it wasn't until he limped unsteadily past us through the crackling brown patch of weeds toward the cider press, saying not another word, that I realized it wasn't the man himself who annoyed me so much as it was Hark's manner in his presence--the unspeakable bootlicking Sambo...
During the past two months, according to a Louis Harris poll, support for the war has dropped from 72% to 61%, with the sharpest drop occurring among Americans who previously backed the President's policy of "fighting to get a negotiated peace." Harris concludes that "the growing public disenchantment stems directly from the now dominant view that the war is not going better militarily." The reliable Minnesota poll is in general agreement...
...sharpest corporate skirmishes in memory swirled around Milwaukee last week, as Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. found itself under heavy assault. The battle was joined by James Joseph Ling, 44, chairman of Dallas-based Ling-Temco-Vought, who during a nine-day fight for control of the company had eventually made a tender offer valued at $560 million-one of the biggest ever. But by week's end, staid Allis-Chalmers, which is the area's biggest employer, had delivered L-T-V its first defeat-however temporary-in Ling's long takeover history...