Word: sharping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Right to Decide. The decision was handed down in the headlined case of Army Specialist Third Class William S. Girard, 21, who shot and killed a Japanese woman while on duty, but without authorization, on a rifle range in Japan last January. The sharp issue was whether the Administration had the right to decide -as it did decide-to grant a Japanese request for jurisdiction over Girard under the status-of-forces agreements. Federal District Judge Joseph C. McGarraghy had held that since Girard acted while on duty, he had a constitutional right to a U.S.'court-martial (TIME...
...immediate, causes of the setback were three sharp economic blows. First, the worst drought in 87 years parched the fertile south, forcing Chile to spend hard cash for foreign wheat. Then unseasonal rains flooded the North. Worst of all, copper-the government's largest revenue source-plummeted from 55? a Ib. to 27?, and with every 1? drop the government lost $6,300,000 in taxes...
...Tang) Commander and Medal of Honor Winner Richard H. O'Kane. A slim hope for those who remain: the report of General Electric President Ralph J. Cordiner (TIME, May 20), advocating raises totaling $565,000,000 in the next two years for the armed services, which has drawn sharp criticism from a budget-minded Congress...
...SULLIVAN. His reputation as "the great stone face" stems only partly from an occasional deadpan expression; his stiff body contributes the rest of the impression. Even so, the reputation is unjustified, because sharp-eyed Dr. Birdwhistell has found that, by actual count, his face motions are average for the U.S.-"less than someone from Atlanta, but more than someone from Buffalo...
Modern Britons know better than to pack up their troubles in their old kit-bags. Instead, more than 130,000 suffering souls each year write, telephone or wire their woes to the cockney-sharp Daily Mirror (circ. 4,723,131) or its scandal-breathing sister, the Sunday Pictorial (5,709,893). Encouraged by occasional black-boxed invitations in both tabloids (DON'T WORRY ON YOUR OWN), Mirror readers address their problems to one Philip Wright, while the Pictorial asks the woebegone to confide in its John Noble...