Word: sharping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crimson's sharp passing gave way to vain booting as hard-fought play ranged aimlessly up and down the field. They gave up their tight, halfback-dominated game for M.I.T.'s wide-open brand of hopeful longshots and could not handle the underdog's spirited hustle...
...race to come. Beyond all this, the President was bound to bear the brunt of a special American reaction: the U.S. takes deep pride in its technical skills and technological prowess, in its ability to get things done-first. Now, despite all the rational explanations, there was a sudden, sharp national disappointment that Americans had been outshone by the Red moon. The disappointment would linger until the U.S. no longer stood second best in the conquest of space...
Williams has dug into the prose, focusing every sharp-eyed, cockeyed image, finding a broomstick for every daffy, airborne prank, split-seconding every sottish or schoolboy joke...
...determination to defend their homes even by installing pillboxes. From Manhattan, Commentator Eric Sevareid rounded up the issues, viewed them in light of the cold war and their implications for the U.S. Neither taking sides nor offering easy solutions where none exist, Algeria Aflame brought a tragic stalemate into sharp focus...
More than usual, the Series revolved around the achievement of one man. While the Yanks poked at his low, sharp-breaking pitches like tired biddies beating carpets, Burdette licked the Yanks three times, to become the first pitcher to start and win three games in a single Series since the Cleveland Indians' Spitballer Stan Coveleskie spattered the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1920. Burdette's coup also made him the first pitcher in 52 years to score two shutouts in a single Series, first ever to shut out the Yankees in two Series games. It was all the more impressive...