Word: sharpness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seemed like a dream of plenty in the nightmare of worldwide need. To most Americans too, their prosperity was a dream, and an uneasy one. The gap between the U.S. ideal of peace & prosperity (as symbolized in wartime posters) and the reality with which the U.S. was surrounded, was sharp and deep. If this was peace & prosperity-and what else was it?-most Americans wanted something better, for themselves and for the world...
...winner was spare and scholarly John Cornelius Stennis, 46, a circuit judge. In him, Mississippians hoped they had a man who would return to the hard-working senatorial traditions of Pat Harrison and John Sharp Williams. John Stennis, born on a farm in Kemper County, had made a bright record for himself at Mississippi Agricultural & Mechanical College and at the University of Virginia law school. He had made an equally bright record as legislator, district attorney and judge. He has never had a civil decision reversed...
...already frightened at the thought of walking up the aisle." However, Elizabeth's sister Margaret, undaunted, confided that she herself means to be married before long. Palace spokesmen were quick to deny all rumors. But after an engagement party at Giro's last week, one sharp-eyed newsman was ready to swear he had seen Princess Margaret and Philip's first cousin, the 28-year-old Marquess of Milford Haven, holding hands under the table...
Like a mother fretting over a willful child's diet, beagle-eyed Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the American Medical Association Journal, keeps a sharp watch over the nation's food & drug habits. Last fortnight Dr. Fishbein was worrying about mineral oil, of all things...
...fetched and solemn jokester though she was, Gertrude Stein as a writer was about as gabby as they come. Maddeningly persistent and maddeningly placid, in Four in America she seems to take all day to say-with many stops and starts, reveries, irrelevancies and fond repetitions-what a good sharp professor could put in a few paragraphs...