Word: sharpness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last weekly reporting period in late August, U.S. battle deaths totaled 190-somewhat fewer than the 244 killed during the week of the last "high point" earlier in the month. Enemy losses were put at 2,757. Last week U.S. Marines and infantrymen engaged in a number of sharp fire fights, most notably in the rolling hills near Danang and north of Saigon...
...appeared in newspapers around the world, that anguished exchange by field telephone between a battle-weary young infantry lieutenant on a Vietnamese hill and his battalion commander was disturbingly reminiscent of classic episodes of battlefield rebellion. Ground down to two-thirds of its original strength after five days of sharp combat, a U.S. Army unit-Company A of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade's 3rd Battalion-had balked at orders to advance once again on well-bunkered North Vietnamese positions...
...Manhattan, a 45-story office building would be lost in the crowd. In San Francisco it would not, especially if it were topped by a 220-ft. spire and had the overall shape of a very sharp pyramid. The building in question is the proposed $30 million head office of Transamerica Corporation. When erected, it will be the tallest building in the West, and the issues it raises go straight to the heart of one of the most vexing problems of urban planning: where should the line be drawn between private convenience and the public good, especially when the public...
...manic change in his personality is apparently triggered by some violent alteration in his environment, such as sharp fluctuations in temperature or humidity. At such times, he develops a voracious appetite. He and his fellows move relentlessly across countries and continents, consuming almost everything in their path that man, beast or insect could possibly eat. In the wake of a swarm, the fields and the trees are stripped bare-as if some huge vacuum cleaner had passed over the land. One ton of locusts, which is only a small platoon in a typical swarm, can consume as much...
...austerity been pushed hard enough to slow inflation; the rate is down to 4.5% this year from 6% in 1968. Britain's example is hardly comforting. The country's unemployment rate in August rose to 2.5%, the highest for that month since 1940, and fears of a sharp recession this winter are growing. Other countries' hopes for restraining inflation without recession depend in great part on how quickly the U.S. cools its overheated economy. U.S. inflation has caused imports to rise, and they include much European production that is needed to satisfy consumer demand on the Continent...