Word: sharpness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tiled subway under the Senate Office Building. With him was J. H. Macomber, Expenditures Committee clerk. As they approached the little monorail, open-top trolley that trundles Senators to the Capitol, a shot split the air. Bricker and Macomber whirled. About 15 steps behind them, they saw a grey, sharp-faced little man frantically breaking open a smoking, single-shot target pistol to reload...
...heart-shaped scarlet cloth draped over a wooden stick which has a handle at one end and a sharp steel point at the other...
...second successive week, the commodity futures market, which had been quiet or sagging during May and June, boiled up with an ominous hiss. Wheat futures rose the permissible limit of 10? a day. July corn jumped to an alltime high of $2.21 a bushel. Within two days, sharp rises in eleven major commodities forced the Dow-Jones commodity futures index up 4.07 points to 146.37. It was the highest since the index was first compiled in 1933 and 9.82 points above the previous high this spring...
...advertising. He knows, to perfection, how to walk into a cushy job by appearing to walk out on it; how to hook a gentlewoman (Miss Kerr) for a soap testimonial; how to turn out a commercial ("Love That Soap") that turns even his own stomach; how to finesse a sharp deal and how to make it stick by the application of blackmail. Above all, he knows how to please his agency's most fearsome client, Mr. Evan Llewellyn Evans (Sidney Greenstreet). Vic seems predestined for radio's ulcer brackets. But Miss Kerr's gentility seduces him into...
Buoyed by such news, most businessmen began to find new and softer meanings for the term recession. After the downturn this spring, many an economist had feared a fairly sharp drop. Yet even in industries where there had been a sudden slump, notably textiles, the readjustment had been made with no more than a tooth-shaking jar. Now there was hope that other adjustments could be made in a gradual, orderly fashion. So when businessmen talked of recession, most of them no longer meant a big, sudden crack un the whole economy, but a continuation, industry by industry...