Word: sharping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arab leaders presented a sharp contrast: Mohammed in flowing white robes. Bourguiba in striped pants, morning coat and red fez. Outside the council room, shabby in worn mackintoshes, hovered two leaders of the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN), Belkacem Krim and Abdelhafid Boussouf...
...dentist's chair, and talked occasionally, Dr. Meyers gave the 'signal and a technician pressed a button. Ultrasound, at a frequency of 980,000 cycles per second, shot through intervening brain tissues but not in sufficient intensity to damage them. The four beams came to a sharp focus at the exact part of the ansa lenticularis on the left side (controlling right-side movements) that Dr. Meyers wanted to destroy. The ultrasound dose lasted only 1.8 seconds. The patient was moved twice, a minute fraction of an inch, so that two more pinhead-size parts of the ansa...
...glide missile, Eggers says, should be shaped rather like a child's paper dart (see cut). The slim conical body should have a blunt point, which does not get as hot at hypervelocity as a sharp point does. The leading edges of the wings and fins should be blunt too. This shape should radiate away enough frictional heat to keep the temperature of its skin below the softening point...
...Genius and the Goddess is just about what one would expect of a play by Aldous Huxley. A sharp, glib, often brilliant novelist, he can give his play a facade, but his matter is not always up to his manner. Moreover, his construction is often obvious or even awkward, and he does not build up to important moments quite plausibly...
Into that cloud may come "a sudden stirring with no forewarning, instantly springing toward God as a spark from a coal." Still higher than the experience of this "sharp dart of longing love" is God's "beam of ghostly light," but of this the author forbears to speak...