Word: sharpness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Minh"). The leader of the 1963 coup that deposed Ngo Dinh Diem, he had spent nearly four years in exile. Hanoi, which apparently sees Big Minh as a possible bridge between the present Saigon regime and the Viet Cong guerrillas, has accordingly taken pains to treat him gently. A sharp reduction in fighting in the South also took place. U.S. battle deaths have been declining steadily since the end of August, dipped to 177 during the week ending Oct. 12. During the first three days of last week, a total of seven U.S. servicemen died...
...descriptions of the look of Japan. "The solid, integral shape of the mountain, taking up the whole of the evening landscape there at the end of the plain, was set off in a deep purple against the pale light of the sky." His eye for physical description is sharp. "Her skin, suggesting the newness of a freshly peeled onion or perhaps a lily bulb, was flushed faintly, even to the throat...
...reach the brain's remote fastnesses, a plastic sleeve is inserted in the carotid artery in the neck and the catheter is threaded through it. Earlier catheters were often stopped by friction and could not always be guided into the desired path at a junction or around sharp curves. The new model, developed in research at Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center and at the Weizmann Institute in Israel, has a magnetic tip. This can be made to oscillate in different directions under the control of an external magnet on alternating current. As the tip vibrates, it pulls...
...McCall's, which publishes Bobby's "Thirteen Days" this week in its November issue, paid $1,000,000 for the 21,000-word manuscript. The private glimpses he gives of President Kennedy's ordeal are almost worth the money. In straight forward language, and with sharp perception, Bobby recounts the events that brought the U.S. and the Soviet Union to the edge of nuclear...
...Sharp passing and heads-up positioning by the Harvard defense throttled M.I.T. offensive play until late in the fourth quarter. Tech wing John Skotheim ruined the Crimson shutout with a goal in the upper left hand corner, past Yardling goalie Josh Burns...