Word: sharping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strains outside are also visible inside the Congress-controlled Parliament itself. This week when Food Minister A. P. Jain tried to gloss over the nation's acute food shortage with bureaucratic doubletalk, he was hooted down by Congress Party M.P.s. When Finance Minister T. T. Krishnamachari announced sharp increases in taxes on railway fares, gasoline and vegetable oils, the Congress benches moaned, denounced their own new budget as a program designed to "soak the poor." Said one Congressman in Bombay: "It's getting fashionable to be anti-Congress...
...lakes: Nyasa, Tanganyika and Lake Albert, with Lake Victoria, second in size only to North America's Lake Superior, on the high plateau near by. On either side of the great central rift, Middle Africa's land stretches out in vast monotonous terraces that drop in sudden sharp steps from 6,000 ft. to the level of the sea like the tiered bastions of some huge island fortress. Its rivers meander in wide swings and detours on their path to the sea, now rushing at breakneck speed through some narrow gorge, now cascading in a sheer drop...
...Machiavelli, in the Convent of the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth, hard by the teeming markets of Rome, a sharp-faced man of 56 with penetrating blue eyes and a quick, pleasant smile settled in last week for a visit in the capital city of his church. He was Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski (pronounced Vishinsky*), Primate of Poland, and, under Pius XII himself, the most remarkable prelate in the Roman Catholic Church today...
Even more important, Penn-Texas must give up its Fairbanks stock control, and must agree to drop the proxy fight. It will sell 300,000 of its 692,000 Fairbanks shares to Fairbanks, Morse at $50 a share v. the $56 market price, a sharp cut below the $69 that Silberstein paid for some of the shares during his 15-month buying spree. To finance the purchase, which reduces Fairbanks, Morse outstanding shares to 1,072,000, the company will issue $15 million in convertible debentures, underwritten by Board Member Casey's investment banking house...
...cradle do not merely scream; they see and live to tell. The Fear of the Fall-in the theological as well as the Freudian sense -is expressed in these tales by a seeing-eye child. In her precarious progress between generations and classes. Author McCarthy developed a sharp sense of reality undeceived by either the sentimentality of Utopia or the sentimentality of cynicism...