Word: sharping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sent a sharp, unprecedented (for him) message to Congress demanding "urgent consideration and action" on three items that he had requested last January: an increase of 1? a gallon in the federal gasoline tax to keep the pay-as-you-go highway program going, increased mortgage-insurance money for the Federal Housing Administration, a new bill to correct the dramatic failure of the support and control program for wheat...
...efficient. The troops looked neat and tough. Drive west from the center of Ciudad Trujillo, and you come on huge fields with possibly 2,000 to 3,000 men drilling in squad-sized groups. These are the draftees, and their D.I.s strut and chant like U.S. marines, all very sharp. On the air route from the east, there is a brand-new jet base at San Isidro, about 15 miles from Ciudad Trujillo, with what looked like 8,000-9,000-ft. run, ways and high-speed taxi strips. What is more, Trujillo's navy actually sails...
Neither a swashbuckler by nature nor a parlor diplomat (he loathes parties, puts up with them only as part of his job), Cabot is known around the State Department as a skilled troubleshooter who works at his job and writes sharp, effective reports. His technical qualifications for Rio include duty at seven posts south of the border (his wife, an American, was born and reared in Mexico City), a swing through Latin America in 1953 with the President's brother, Dr. Milton Eisenhower, and service as U.S. delegate to a number of Latin American conferences. Prognosis for his Senate...
Last week four experts grappled with the question in a new Fund for the Republic report. Religion and the Schools. What emerged was a topflight summary of familiar views, and a sharp breach among the experts. Against aid for parochial schools: the one agnostic, Economics Professor Robert Lekachman of Barnard College, and Rabbi Robert Gordis of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. For aid: Catholic Layman William Gorman, onetime associate director of the Institute for Philosophical Research, and the Rev. Dr. F. Ernest Johnson of the (Protestant) National Council of Churches of Christ...
...Marauders, by Charlton Ogburn Jr. The author, a World War II veteran of Merrill's Marauders, recalls the savage Burmese actions with sharp description and incisive reflection...