Word: sharping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Flying to Denver last fortnight to dedicate Mamie Doud Eisenhower Park, the First Lady left her Brown Palace Hotel suite only twice in five days, limited her dedicatory remarks to a few words of thanks. Last week Denver's sharp-eyed observers learned why her schedule had been sharply curtailed. White House Physician Howard McC. Snyder, who had accompanied her west, accompanied her also to Washington's Walter Reed Army Hospital, stood by while an Army gynecologist did a two-hour hysterectomy...
...could not "call off" the name of Ceylon's Prime Minister Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike (TIME, Aug. 12). Said Dulles of this incident: "Now, the question of the selection of any particular person depends primarily upon whether he has integrity of character, whether he has a sharp and quick intelligence, and whether he is genuinely devoted to the public service. We believe that out of those three qualities can be made a competent and efficient ambassador worthy to represent and able to defend the interests of the U.S. We believe that Mr. Gluck has all three of those...
...year (v. $2 for individual mail subscribers), thus can sell advertising space (1956 ad revenue: $402,000) on the basis of audited circulation. The magazine is put out by a ten-man lay staff under onetime Holiday Staffer Robert J. Cadigan, aims at general family readership with sharp picture layouts and easy-to-take text pieces...
...bigger surpluses by setting high price supports. Designed to keep small farmers from going broke when surpluses drag prices down, it actually helps the poorest farmers least and the richest most. Designed to bolster the health and welfare of agricultural communities, it has tempted many a farmer to sharp practices because "only suckers" would refuse to take advantage of the loopholes in the law. Designed to cut surpluses by subsidized sales of grain and cotton abroad, it is so rigged that, as overseas sales are successful, price supports rise automatically - hence bring on more surpluses. Designed to ensure farm stabilization...
...reports: "She orders . . . that is, Miss Sophie asks . . She wants it to be you." Erick obliges. His first shot blows half her face away. "On the second shot everything was over." With this, Novelist Yourcenar (Hadrian's Memoirs, TIME, Nov. 29, 1954) contrives to inject her own sharp sense of history in what is told within the emotional limits of three private destinies...