Word: sharpness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the smoke of accusation cleared last week, Justice Edgar Nathan Jr. gave Gloria fulltime control over the children, restricted Stoky to annual four-week visits with a fifty-fifty share of school holidays and weekends. But the judge did not let either parent go without administering a sharp slap. "It is a sad commentary," he wrote, "that an entire month of the court's time and energy has been devoted almost exclusively to the resolution of problems which mature, intelligent parents should be able to work out for themselves for the sake of their children...
Coming in for serious and sharp criticism was the New York Central: "Seats were filthy, windows unwashed, washrooms dirty and unsanitary. Employees often saw roaches and even rats and mice running through the cars...
...bustling Saturday evening in downtown Algiers, and as the Rue d'Isly swirled with last minute shoppers, there was a sharp explosion. When the smoke lifted, there lay underneath a shattered car all that was left of a 16-year-old Moslem who had held on to his grenade too long. Unnoticed among the curious crowd that gathered, a soberly dressed, respectable-looking, middle-aged Frenchwoman quickly bent down and picked up one of the dead terrorist's severed fingers. Putting it in her handbag, she snapped the clasp and slipped away...
...four feminist years, sharp-tongued girls have speared the prize at the Scripps-Howard National Spelling Bee. It looked that way again last week at the 32nd annual spellbinder in the ballroom of Washington's Mayflower Hotel. The girls marched past progressively tougher words, from heroine, blossom and dentifrice to operose, miscible and quadrumanous. By the end of the first day, there were six girl contestants to five boys...
...sharp employment push was also helped by the fact that new plant and equipment expenditures, another area of economic lag during the recovery, are starting to pick up. First-quarter spending was at the rate of only $30.6 billion, but the second-and third-quarter forecast is for a rate of $32.3 billion and $33.4 billion, both well above last year's $30.5 billion...