Word: sharpness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington, Dennis A. FitzGerald, chief of ECA's food division, hopefully predicted that the unexpected production would permit "appreciably larger" grain exports to Europe. Commerce Secretary Charles Sawyer took sharp exception. Said he: "The emphasis is now on recovery, not on relief . . . It may now be time to give some attention to the interests of the American housewife...
...boar or crocodile teeth hung from their waists. Some displayed intricate patterns tattooed on throat and chest; a few sported Hollywood-style sunglasses. The headman of the group, one Jabu, unsheathed his parang. "It's more than 50 years old, like me," he said. "It's still sharp...
...Manhattan District had been over-optimistic in its prediction. When it plunged into the power project two years ago, no one had made more than a start on any of the major technical problems. Skilled scientists and industrial engineers were at a premium. But the Army had a mild, sharp-nosed little chemistry professor named Farrington Daniels, who took on the job of designing a full-sized nuclear reactor to produce power. By mid-1947, Daniels and his team were well into the vast problems confronting them. They reported that the basic difficulties should be solved within a year...
...year in Manhattan and the other six months in New Mexico's canyon country -an equally steep and angular land. She has painted both homes with appropriate simplicity. Her Manhattan oils (many of them done from a window of the midtown Hotel Shelton) were pavement-hard and needle-sharp...
...Wildcats" (unscheduled passenger lines) were digging their claws into the regular airlines. They were particularly sharp on the profitable New York-Los Angeles run. By last week a dozen wildcatters were hauling some 2,500 passengers weekly on the transcontinental run, grossing an estimated $10 million a year...