Word: sharpness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...backs. "Let's go home!" cried one woman. "The danger is over." While Romans celebrated democracy's victory, swarms of the city's ragged children roamed the streets, tearing down election posters in order to sell them as scrap for a few lire. It was a sharp reminder that the danger was far from over. The victors still had a price to pay for their 18 million anti-Communist votes. The price was land and bread for Italy's workers and peasants...
...Great Grab. The sharp difference; in density between the inner and outer planets he accounts for in another way. The sun's atmosphere was hottest toward the center and cooler farther out. As the gas gradually condensed into solid particles, only substances of high boiling point (metals, mineral compounds) could condense in the hot inner regions. This accounts for the high density of the inner planets. Only in the cool outer parts of the system could light compounds like ammonia and methane get together in masses. The outer "protoplanets" grew faster; they were formed from more of the compounds...
...Great Wall. Looking beyond the five Marshall Plan years, many Canadians see economic integration with the U.S. as a snowballing process. Said one last week: "The snowball is rolling down the hill and no one's going to stop it now." Nevertheless, these Canadians draw a sharp line between "integration" and "union...
...used most of their coal reserves to keep production as close to normal as possible. They would hardly be able to rebuild the reserves by June 30, when the miners' contract expires and another strike is expected. The next one, if it comes, would force a quick and sharp cut in steel production...
...Wooers. Edison couldn't hear the roaring of a train, but when two women who were traveling in it exchanged whispered secrets, he heard every word. He was deaf to the shrillest birdsong-unless it came over his particular amplifying system, the phonograph. He could hear the sharp dots & dashes of the telegraph transmitter, but he couldn't hear a word over Mr. Bell's primitive new telephone-until he took it in hand and helped make a more efficient instrument...