Word: sharpness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lack of Danger. Marshall made it clear that the President's plan was as far as the Administration would now go. He did not minimize the danger of a Communist victory. Under sharp questioning by Minnesota's Walter H. Judd, he agreed that if the Chiang government fell, the Communists would immediately seize all of China north of the Yangtze, would hold the key to all the rest. He agreed that such a turn would make the U.S. position in Korea untenable, would force "a very serious situation" on General Douglas MacArthur* in Japan...
That story summarized Marxism's challenge. For Marxism offered both reason and faith, both bread and miracles. Sharp ears this week could hear Karl Marx laugh quietly to himself on the Manifesto's birthday. The bourgeois, forgetting their own accomplishments, were remembering his carbuncles. "Yours forever," the old man seemed to say, "Yours forever, Dr. Crankley...
...Pyongyang, capital of Soviet-occupied North Korea, there was an eye-filling parade last week. Leathery, sharp-eyed Kim II Sung, puppet boss of Korean Communists, reviewed the new Soviet-supplied North Korea People's Army. Citizens were summoned to attend. They shivered in subfreezing weather, shouting "Mansyeh!" (Long Life) as infantry, mounted machine guns, mortars and field guns swept past. Fighter planes with the Taikeuk (Korean national flag) droned overhead, dropping roses. All these fascinating weapons were not of Korean manufacture. Marveled the North Korea radio : "Equipment . . . Korean people have never seen before and do not even know...
...steering with his body, breaking & banking with his spiked boots. For a fleeting second, he could see the white panorama of St. Moritz, and directly below-extending a sinister invitation-the village cemetery. One false move would put him in it. A few yards further, he roared into a sharp right turn, had no trouble until his skeleton sled went too high into Shuttlecock. With a desperate jerk, he brought it down. Said he afterwards: "I still had two fingers of space between the edge of the bank and the runner of my skeleton-that's just enough...
...Friday morning, after another sharp dip, U.S. grain prices rallied. Some grain speculators thought the worst might be over. Richard Uhlmann, president of the Board of Trade, thought it was safe to speak some reassuring words for a CBS broadcast. As he finished speaking, an assistant rushed up and cried: "The rally's oyer! Corn fell 8? while you were talking...