Word: sharpness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Glenn Davis, late of West Point. It obviously had more glamor as well as more pay than his Army job ($2,412 a year). So he wrote a confidential letter of resignation to his commanding officers. Last week, after some noisy throat-clearing in Washington, "Junior" Davis got a sharp answer from Secretary of the Army Kenneth Royall. Normally, said Royall, an officer can resign from the Army when he wants to, but this was still a time of "national emergency." The Army, he said, needs trained officers "who, in good faith, entered its professional commissioned ranks...
...flexible bladder at its base. The hair itself is hollow and stiffened with silica. At the tip is a tiny bulb like a cork stuck on the end of a hypodermic needle. When the hair touches a victim, the bulb breaks off, exposing a point so exquisitely sharp that it slips right through the skin. Pressure on the hair shaft squeezes the bladder and injects poison into the victim's tissues. The result: a hot, burning sensation followed by a longer-lasting itching...
Many also remembered something else: the feeling of scarcely admitted relief. On Pearl Harbor Day, the line between right & wrong had been drawn with the sharp definition of a bomb splinter. There had been only one possible course which Americans could accept without reservation. Last week, as 1947 drew to a close, many wondered if anything could ever seem so terrifyingly simple again...
...issue, or else make it plain to the world that the Russians had no intention of writing a peace treaty. As the translator rattled off Marshall's words, Molotov went into a huddle with Andrei Vishinsky, scurried through documents, snapped open briefcases. The sound of fluttering paper was sharp in the room...
Only two minutes had gone by in the first round. There was a sharp exchange of blows, and Joe Louis, the world champion, fell backwards and landed on the seat of his purple pants. The crowd caught its breath, and then yelled. At the count of two, Big Joe got up again. But the 18,194 cash customers in Madison Square Garden had seen a rare sight-Joe Louis floored in the first round...