Word: sharping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clinches. The handsome Harlem hot shot was a reasonable facsimile of the man who was once the fanciest fighter in the prize ring, but he was no longer the swift-punching dancing master who had moved up from the welterweights to terrorize the middleweights. He was not even as sharp as he looked last September when Basilio took his title away. But Robby was more than good enough...
...paradoxical recession, perhaps the biggest paradox of all is the leapfrogging race between prices and wages that has continued long after the general economy paused for a breath. Though price cuts are on the rise (see Metals), they have not been fast or sharp enough to hold down the steady rise in the cost-of-living index. Nor has labor trimmed its wage demands in the face of poor sales and lower profits (see Autos). Last week Chicago Federal Reserve President Carl E. Allen took both management and labor to task for what he called a "price and cost rigidity...
...wound himself. Four child-guidance centers in turn worked on Robert, got nowhere. After three years of this, his mother gave up, insisted he was incorrigible and a "pathological liar," should be sent to a reform school. But at Oliver Wendell Holmes Grammar School, Principal Loretta Mulcahy found Robert "sharp" and capable of learning his subjects well, thought there was hope of rehabilitating him. There may still be hope, even now, but the rehabilitation will not be accomplished at the Oliver Wendell Holmes Grammar School. Last week, with John tagging along, Robert broke in, found matches, burned down...
...industries there were signs that recovery might have begun. After the gloom of January and early February, Detroit's automen reported a sharp, continuing sales rise in March, with sales of some cars up as much as 25%. Oilmen, too, thought they might be bottoming out of recession, had cut production drastically to reduce inventories, while many independents clamored for further import cuts (see Oil). Texas cut its April allowable another 120,203 bbl. and scheduled only eight days' production (2,444,571 bbl. daily) for the entire month, the lowest level in history. Although gasoline stocks topped...
...books with lawyer heroes seem to fascinate almost everybody. Two such novels are currently running No. 1 and 2 on national bestseller lists: Anatomy of a Murder, by Robert Traver (TIME, Jan. 6). and By Love Possessed, by James Gould Cozzens (TIME, Sept. 2). The books handle "nice sharp quillets of the law" expertly, but differently. Anatomy of a Murder (the author, hiding behind a pen name, is John D. Voelker, justice of the Michigan Supreme Court) suffers from inexpert writing but describes in fascinating detail the elaborate, unpredictable mechanism that controls the outwardly simple scales of justice during...