Word: sharpness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...skills, to judge from the experience of Canada and Britain, the only major nations that have volunteer forces. Though these armies are small, not having the great global responsibilities of the American forces, they provide enviable examples of high effectiveness, low turnover and contented officers. Lieut. General A. M. Sharp, Vice Chief of the Defense Staff of Canada, contends that freewill soldiers are "unquestionably going to be better motivated than men who are just serving time...
...Times (London)-Dignified and polite, uncluttered and well edited, with excellent writing and editorials that are highly polished and deceptively sharp. The Times is perhaps the one paper that most readily comes to mind when thoughts turn to quality daily journalism...
Lovell: One of the most amazing features of the surface is the roundness that most of the craters have instead of sharp, jagged rocks. Only the newest features have any sharp definitions to them, and eventually they get eroded down by the constant bombardment of small meteoroids...
...headquarters, a number of intelligence evaluators disagree with the optimists who report directly to Director Richard Helms on Viet Nam. The CIA does, nevertheless, unite to take potshots at the DIA's overly hopeful judgments. The two intelligence agencies are in such sharp discord that when Lyndon Johnson recently ordered them to come up with a figure on the size of Communist forces, they were unable to comply...
...build. Powered by six 550-h.p. turbine engines, the aluminum Turbos are capable of speeds up to 170 m.p.h. At first they will be restricted to 110 m.p.h. Riding at that speed, the three-car trains can carry about 140 passengers in great comfort. They can round sharp curves at speeds 40% higher than existing equipment-and a coffee cup filled to the brim will not spill over. Separate power-dome units on either end of the train house the engines, cabins for the two-man crew and first-class observation seats. An engineer can run the train in either...