Word: sharpness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hostess at the Terrace Restaurant in the Watergate complex. Kenneth Gray, then an Illinois Democratic Congressman, phoned up to ask for a former hostess there. Liz told Gray that she wanted to meet him. Recalls Liz: "I had heard about him-the limousines, the boat, the good looks, the sharp clothes." They dined that night and, she says, he offered...
...hitch. Awakening in the recovery room four hours later, he found himself in a tangle of tubes and wires. Almost every bodily function was being monitored or controlled. To ensure adequate oxygen for his heart, he was hooked to a respirator. If he tried to move, he felt a sharp chest pain (from the break that was made in his breastbone to get at his heart). Later, as he listened to the beep-beeps of heart monitors echoing through the corridor, he nervously wondered whether any change in their steady rhythm was coming from his machine...
...Sharp Spikes. The sideshow barkers extolled their wares: "Miss Delilah, the girl who thrives on electricity and smiles when we push the switch on her very own electric chair," and "El Diablo, the king of fire, the human volcano," and "the human blockhead who loves to pound large sharp spikes and razor-tipped awls into his skull...
...Greeley theory has been sharply questioned by some other scholars, by churchmen, and by people who cannot forget that Greeley is also a sharp-penned journalist. But many Catholics agree that Humanae vitae was, at the very least, a blow that shattered rising expectations for change. The Second Vatican Council had signaled to Catholics that they might have more freedom than they once thought. The crucial Declaration on Religious Freedom (largely the work of American Jesuit John Courtney Murray) stated that religious liberty was a human right-an admission the church had never before made. It was by no means...
Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53, chairman of the Government Department, offered a similar explanation for the sharp increase in the number of freshmen who choose Government this year. Although it has always been one of the largest concentrations, Government attracted 20 more freshmen this year than last, a jump that Mansfield chalked up to the general interest in politics that marks presidential election years...