Word: sharpness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nation got a sharp warning. A joint congressional committee of tax experts estimated last week that at the present rate of income and outgo, the U.S. would be in the red another $3 billion by next year. Such big round numbers had lost their ability to shock, the government was already $252 billion in debt. But one fact could be understood. If even in prosperous peacetime a government did not keep out of the red, then it was playing with economic dynamite...
Male support is consistently top-level. Arthur Kennedy and Paul Stewart, as the crippled brother and manager of the champion, make perfect foils for Douglas. Their humaneness and concern are in sharp contrast with his simple-minded machine destruction; their relative smallness, in spite of their warmth, shows all the more his brutal greatness...
...debate on the subject was sharp. James H. Heller '49 repeated his statements of the previous meeting on the subject by stating that he was against any extension of the "dictatorship of snobbery," and drew from Edward M. Parker '49, Sergeant-at-Arms of the new club, a strong denial that the club was based on snobbery...
...created between Luis and his younger brother, Pepe, a new matador who is eager to fight and does not know of fear. The spirit of the fight eventually returns to Luis and drives out the fear, but the reader is left with a vivid impression of the power of sharp horns...
Grosset's President John O'Connor took on the job of running Wonder Books himself. O'Connor has always been a man with a sharp eye for selling. As vice president of Chicago's Quarrie Corp., he helped sell a million copies of the Book of Knowledge. At Grosset, it was he who started Bantam Books. O'Connor thinks that the potential market for Wonder Books (which have hard, washable-plastic covers) is 100 million copies. To cash in on it, he expects to increase the list of 16 titles (including Mother Goose, Peter Rabbit...