Word: sharping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mean?" By war's end Milton Eisenhower had achieved all the recognition he needed. At an Abilene family reunion, with General Ike just returned from his crusade in Europe, a reporter asked Ida Eisenhower how it felt to have her famous son at home. Her sharp reply: "Which one do you mean...
...Negroes descended, knives flashing, left two white men writhing on the ground. Within minutes, as nearby pubs emptied, fighting became general. Negroes and whites smashed bottles, grabbed up sticks and bricks and anything else handy. Said one woman: "They knocked me into a shop doorway, and I felt something sharp cut into my arm. My husband and his friend were on the ground with a pile of colored men on them. A taxi swerved onto the pavement and scattered the blackies. When my husband got up he was holding his back, and I saw there was a knife...
...called Calvary, usually surmounted by a cross which stands there all year long. In Easter Week, on Wednesday, Thursday and Good Friday, the Penitentes stage processions between morada and Calvary-some stripped to the waist, with thorny cacti bound around their chests, some scourging themselves every few steps with sharp-bladed yucca leaves until the blood saturates their trousers, some staggering under 15-ft. wooden crosses. Some of them crawl upon the sharp stones on lacerated knees and hands, and each, beneath the black hood that conceals his identity, recites prayers of penance...
...every major racing event since Sir Thomas Lipton went to the U.S. from England in 1899 for the first of five unsuccessful tries at the America's Cup. Rosy's black-and-white pictures have a style that any yachtsman can spot at a glance: arresting composition, sharp clarity, and most important, an uncanny projection of the yacht's personality. "A yacht photographer must understand the character of a boat-he must see her perform," he explains. "It is my job to do justice to the designer's creation...
...problem is important because filters are largely responsible for the new boom in cigarettes. After a sharp dip in 1953-54, when medical tests indicating a cancer-cigarette link were widely publicized, sales have come back to hit a new record this year (see chart). Smokers worried about tar and nicotine pushed filters, with their "thousands of filter traps," to 38.5% of the market last year, will increase the percentage to 45% of a market that promises to top $5 billion...