Word: sharpness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rent level-and, of course, "we would have suffered many more casualties on the battlefield." McConnell argued that American bombing could have been more effective if it had been less "gradual." "It was the second of March 1965," he reminisced, "and we recommended what we called a sharp, sudden blow which would have paralyzed the enemy's capability. That was disapproved as a concept...
...fruit and vegetable crops, but Reagan at a press conference pointed out that the union had failed to provide sufficient manpower to bring in the crops before they were in danger of rotting. Said Reagan of the union leaders: "Sometimes they remind me of a dog sitting on a sharp rock howling with pain, who is too stupid to get up." Then he ordered his department of health and welfare to find out how many of the state's welfare recipients would be willing to go out and work in the fields to harvest or risk losing their benefits...
Known in the trade as "the Pope of Video," Sullivan keeps a sharp lookout for anything that might be suggestive. He recently disapproved a Playtex bra commercial because "we don't want to show a girl in a filmy thing on a day when everyone's been to church and all." After he signed Elvis Presley for a record $50,000 for three appearances, Sullivan would not allow the camera to show the singer's gyrating pelvis. "He may be a purist," says Comic Jack...
...they are, the family resemblance is faint. Although the Vienna Philharmonic responded to Bernstein's exuberant beat with a reasonable facsimile of the razor-sharp New York sound, it played for Bohm with the familiar tone that has made it one of the outstanding groups in orchestral history...
Last week's game proved very little. It is hard to agree with Coach John Yovicsin that, "We weren't much better than Lafayette." But even so, the Crimson hardly got a stiff workout. Zimmerman looked confident and sharp toward the end of the first half. But he takes a while to warm up and we will have to wait and see this time...