Word: sharpness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that one night out on the road. Yeah a bunch of 'feds' were chasing me and one of them took a shot. It broke the windshield of my car and grazed my fingers, but I got away all right. Guess I was just more of a fool on the sharp corners than they were...
...attack of the Yale team will be based on power for the most part with but little stress on deception and passing. This is expected to be in sharp contrast to the Harvard attack which, it is thought, will be based on aerial thrusts by the crafty Barry Wood, Crimson quarterback...
Subsequent sharp querying of Scot MacDonald-especially by Welshman Lloyd George-confirmed two important if negative facts. The Prime Minister's answers revealed for the first time that he did not discuss the Anglo-U. S. War debt situation with Mr. Hoover, and that he has not given the President any assurance that in wartime the British navy will respect the right of U. S. merchantmen to freedom of the seas. Since there has been general uneasiness in Britain on the latter point, Mr. MacDonald's straightforward answer cleared the air, enhanced his popularity, banished suspicion that...
...House of Lords, the big, sharp-tongued Earl of Birkenhead, Secretary of State for India in the late Baldwin Cabinet, sneered that the Labor Government "have mishandled the Indian situation in every conceivable way at every conceivable stage. . . . They have been frightened by the threats of Indian extremists. . . . Their explanations of what they have done have been confused and mutually inconsistent...
Stirred as Russians easily are by music, the docile audience sang revolutionary songs with gusto for a half-hour, broke off in confusion when suddenly the President's Committee on the stage began to clap. Sharp-eyed, they had seen a swarthy man of medium build enter the once Imperial Box and sink into a back seat where he sat composedly stroking his long, dark moustache. "STALIN!" shouted someone and Comrade jostled Comrade as the audience roared frenzied cheers, then burst spontaneously into the Red anthem, The Internationale. Delirious minutes passed before STALIN would step to the front...