Word: sharping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...memorable school desegregation case, and he was joined in it by all his brethren on the court. But while millions cheered the result, many lawyers had an uneasy feeling that it hung on too much sociological ballooning and not enough legal ballast. More than a year ago sharp legal-eagle eyes began to open wide at signs of changes to come. The Warren court reversed the Pennsylvania State conviction of Communist Steve Nelson on the ground that federal security laws (notably the very same Smith Act) had pre-empted state antisedition statutes. Then a year ago the court agreed...
...agreement to make sharp cutbacks within the next year in the 100,000 U.S. servicemen now stationed in Japan, including a "prompt withdrawal of all U.S. ground combat forces," i.e., about 30,000 men of the Army. The 1st Cavalry Division, biggest U.S. combat group in the home islands, will pull out this summer. Probable destination: Korea. As Japan's new, 200,000-man defense force grows, Washington plans to make further reductions in the remaining 70,000-man U.S. force-for the most part Air Force and Navy personnel...
...provoke rebellion in Hungary in order to crush it firmly and finally. But the Russians badly miscalculated their own strength and control. Within a few days the Hungarian Communist Party had disintegrated, the Hungarian army had defected, and the borders of Hungary were open to a host of sharp-eyed Western observers. Overnight the Revolution became a war strictly between Hungarians and Russians, with the world looking on. In this unexpected situation, the Soviet army command was forced to mark time while the forces they had alerted days before in Rumania (mostly Mongols and Tartars) could be brought...
Musical high point of the evening: Bartok's Violin Concerto, with Yehudi Menuhin as soloist. The orchestra played with parade-drilled smoothness and reflex-sharp rhythmic feel. Said Menuhin afterwards: "It's the first time I ever played the whole concerto straight through at rehearsal without stopping and explaining. This music is in their blood; it's like American children dancing rock 'n' roll...
...recessions, the index is now giving many an economist and businessman the recession jitters with its steady downward movement. Last week Dr. Reinhold Wolff, head of the University of Miami's business and economic-research department, predicted an "economic dip-perhaps one that will be quite sharp-pretty soon...