Word: sharpness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Evenings had turned cool, and the call of the whippoorwill came sharp and insistent across fields fat with Indiana's richest harvest in years. At Walter Barbour's 232-acre farm outside Indianapolis, baskets of sun-ripened peaches and big red tomatoes crowded the fruit sheds. In the orchards, the trees sagged under the weight of their reddening apples. Barbour had no idea how many bushels hung on the trees: "All I know is that there couldn't be any more apples in there than what's on the trees right...
Ever since the depression, noisy prophets had been springing up along the Pacific Coast to lead the aged in holy wars on the nearest state treasury. They were an odd lot-power-hungry Communists, vote-hungry politicos, sharp-eyed promoters and croupy and lugubrious old bucks with top-heavy cargoes of park-bench economics. They herded the "senior citizens" into irascible pressure groups, made pensions a permanent political issue, and damned those who opposed them as monsters who would starve their own grandmothers...
Washington believes there is only one way out for Britain-she must scrap her restrictive bilateral trade policies, produce more cheaply, and compete for all she is worth. That would mean a revolution of sorts in British industry and a sharp reduction in some of Labor's pet projects. It would also require efficient redeployment of British workers to industries where they are needed most; that would cause temporary unemployment. The hard fact is that Britain cannot whip herself into trim competitive shape without at least temporarily lowering her standard of living...
Nobody on the Daily News except Norlander and City Editor Clem Lane knew what had happened to the two rewrite men. One sharp-eyed staffer, who asked Lane about Bird, was told that he was working on a special story. Said the staffer: "The hell he is. I just saw him sitting on a curb on Skid Row. Boy, what a bender he must...
...Sharp Focus. In Fort Worth, police received a routine letter from Twin Falls, Idaho authorities inquiring about a suspected bad-check passer and describing her as "25, 115 Ibs., 5 ft. 5 in. She wore a low-cut dress with short skirt, making it very hard to gain a description of her facial features...