Word: sharpness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sixth chorus, his voice had splintered to a teeth-chattering accompaniment, and Buie began to lose hope. He dozed a while. Then, two hours after he went overboard, he saw lights. It was the escort vessel Leslie L. B. Knox, sailing a random course between exercises. Buie yelled. A sharp-eared sailor on watch heard him, sounded the emergency rescue alarm. Searchlights blazed. Knox's helm swung hard over to circle, and Rescue Swimmer Harold Martin, 19, dived over the side, swam 30 yds. to Buie and hauled him aboard...
...m.p.h. Then he cut the engine. Two miles ahead, a small peninsula called Pelican Point jutted out into the water. The distance seemed safe enough. The boat had earlier slowed from 260 m.p.h. to a stop in less than a mile. But now a sudden breeze stirred sharp ruffles on Pyramid Lake. The chop broke the normal suction grabbing at the hull, turned the water into a fast-running surface. Tempo-Alcoa did not slow, instead seemed to take off at a speed that made the rudder all but useless. Says Staudacher: "It was like skidding on ice. When...
Playwright Inge has once again, with the help of a good cast, achieved his sharp little vignettes, his touching, muffled cries and lonely moments. In the mother he has created an interesting variation on a type, and in mother and son he has clearly sought to probe one of the most difficult and tangled of human relationships. That he has not done so seems due partly to method and partly to mood. The dancer's role, whatever its own interest or its catalyst value, somehow obstructs the son and mother story and keeps it from breathing. Into a short...
...Europe" was his phrase, not Churchill's), the Economist has produced some of the best writing in journalism. Parkinson's Law (that administrative staffs grow an inexorable 5% a year) was first drafted in the Economist. A friend to the U.S., the Economist can still issue sharp criticisms of U.S. policy: "The Eisenhower Administration, while having a policy towards the world, has consistently lacked policies for particular parts of it. It has had an attitude, but not solutions-a diagnosis, but no remedies." In its attitude toward the cold war, the Economist is succinct: "The essential thing...
...over fish, beginning at tail and working towards head. Incline knife slightly towards you to prevent scales from flying . . . Wipe fish thoroughly inside and out with a cloth wrung out of cold water, removing any clotted blood which may be found adhering to the backbone. To skin fish: with sharp knife remove skin along the back and cut off a narrow strip of skin the entire length of back. Loosen skin on one side from bony part of gills ... if fish is soft, work slowly and carefully . . .' And so on through all the other gruesome procedures before the housewife...