Word: sharping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doctors' bills going up, in what London's Economist called "the continuing crisis of our times, the fall in the value of our money." One day last week, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that in June the U.S. cost of living had gone up a sharp one-half of 1% (to 120.2 with 1947-49 as base of 100) to its tenth successive alltime monthly high. This took the dollar down to 95? worth of a March 1956 dollar, 50? worth of a pre-World War II dollar. Down, too, during the past 16 months were...
...Pageant Unfolds. Into the north end of Westminster Hall the American lawyers thronged for the welcoming ceremonies, many bearing their light meters and cameras, a few doffing ten-gallon hats as they entered, most of them sharp-eyed, serious men, substantial in their communities, practical men who had not forgotten how to be stirred by a great occasion which ennobled their vocation with high purpose...
...Sharp observers noted that in his plea for the growth of an organic law of nations, Brownell did not once mention the United Nations...
...current contest between ideologies for the minds of men has done us, too, a signal, if unexpected, service. It has cast in sharp relief what we have and support, against the backdrop of the terrible tyranny of totalitarian governments and their ruthless domination over the lives of human beings. In defending the ways of a free people we have been forced to compare our systems, so that all who are able to learn may make a choice...
...task to its correspondents. From reporters across the U.S. came rich detail that developed into a theme: the U.S. in this midsummer is on the move, bag, baggage and children. Correspondent Charles Mohr, driving crosscountry from San Francisco to his new assignment in the Washington bureau, tuned in a sharp traveler's-eye view. Mohr noted, in addition to such phenomena as foam-rubber hats and rock-'n'-roll-loving Indians, that the new state turnpikes are working a special kind of havoc on a special kind of citizen. Reported Mohr: "I heard one traveler remark...