Word: sharping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...college town of Oberlin, Ohio (1950 pop. 7,062), neighbors knew Alice Cowles Little as a dear old maiden lady with a sharp memory and a penchant for collecting. Her memory, even after more than half a century, still warmly cradled the color and sound of the faraway Pacific islands that she visited as a young missionary for the Congregational Church. Her collections-sea shells, bits of pressed vegetation, samples of earth and coral-cluttered her antebellum house on Oberlin's East College Street, where she lived quietly the last 50 years...
...broadcast of 1958. Once past the opening scene's heavy-footed family frolic, the production made a softly bright delight of the land of the Sugar Plum Fairy. Avoiding the tricky camera shifts and closeups that most directors try when televising ballet, Director Ralph Nelson kept the episodes sharp, the camera steady. Result: an overall sense of gaiety and space. High point: Allegra Kent, crisp and crystalline as Dew Drop...
Under the spotlight, her thin, sharp face had the moody glower of an unsuccessful manicurist. Her lank, hemp-colored hair splashed in uncombed confusion above her black velvet sheath. But weird as she looked, slack-mouthed, hazel-eyed Singer Tammy Grimes sounded wonderful-no mean accomplishment in the cramped quarters of Julius Monk's Downstairs at the Upstairs, a crowded Manhattan nightclub where the man who moves may catch his neighbor's elbow in his ear or his companion's highball...
Even in a game's quiet moments the din at the Forum is incessant. But the normal noise level increases to a rafter-raising roar when an aging, sharp-featured wingman with deep-set flashing jet-black eyes and a mop of black hair cuddles the puck to his stick, nurses it past enemy defenders, skillfully fakes the goalie out of position and flicks the rubber disk into the cage. Shouts of "Rocket, Rocket" fill the air in delirious tribute to Joseph Henri Maurice Richard, the greatest player in modern hockey history...
...serve our clients' increasing needs and our country's growth even better." The merger was characterized in Wall Street as "Jonah swallowing the whale," since Alexander will be chairman and chief executive officer of the Morgan Guaranty Trust Co of New York; Guaranty President Dale E. Sharp, 55, becomes president...