Word: sharping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Look Sharp. "There's no second-generation money here." says 38-year-old Anchorage Millionaire (real estate) Wally Hickel. who went to Alaska from Claflin, Kans. in 1940 with 37? in his pocket. "This is the crib. We're it. We're trying to make a Fifth Avenue out of the tundra, to accomplish in less than 50 years what the U.S. did in 100. Where else could you get that kind of mission, in a land that cozies you with beauty on one hand and swats you hard-if you're not looking sharp-with...
...Debré is suspicious of U.S. intentions in North Africa ("The U.S. appears on the scene only when there is a profitable investment to be made or a strategic base to be established"), wants Europe to unite in a "defense pact" against Islam instead of the Soviet Union. A sharp pamphleteer and good debater, Debré originated the famed Ecole Nationale d'Administration to train top diplomats and civil servants. As a legal expert in France's highest court, he will presumably be entrusted with De Gaulle's reform of the constitution...
Back home, Lebanon's sharp-trading Christian and Moslem businessmen ruefully reckoned their losses. An estimated $50 million in foreign funds have fled, and bankers moaned that even if a compromise could halt the bloodletting, Lebanon would be a long time regaining its reputation as a safe, stable island in the turbulent Middle East...
...growth has come in the open-end funds, whose assets total $9.5 billion (see chart). They are so big that some Wall Streeters fear that a wave of redemptions from worried investors might force a market break. But in all the recent sharp market breaks, the funds have bought, not sold, and thus given stability to the market. Recently the funds, thinking the market too high, were cautious about buying; of the 15 largest funds, twelve reduced their percentage of common-stock holdings in the first quarter...
...collectively than any one of the semi-articulate Beats and Angries has done on his own. The editors have culled the best from both schools (the U.S.'s Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Clellon Holmes; Britain's Kingsley Amis, John Wain, John Osborne) and leavened the lot with sharp-eyed critical commentaries from both sides of the water. U.S. readers will find the Beat section more interesting, if only because it helps to illuminate such postwar phenomena as the James Dean cult, the Elvis Presley and rock-'n'-roll crazes, and the gratuitous ferocity of juvenile delinquency...