Word: sharpness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bobby Kelley led off the Harvard first with a sharp single to left. Following a walk to Rick Pearce, the MIT outfield--a group listed on the roster as Kracunas, Holland and Garverick, certainly pseudonyms for Mo, Shemp and Larry (Curly was the DH)--began its problems with aerodynamics...
...muted hope, anxiety and sharp anger...
...arms sales to Egypt. While making propaganda about peace, the U.S. is increasing the danger of war. [Gaddafi argued that the new Egyptian arms are likely to be used not against Israel but against Libya. In July 1977, Egypt launched sharp raids against Libya in a border dispute.] If the Americans seek to change the balance [of power in the region] in a way that is threatening to Libya, we will be forced to seek Soviet assistance to counter that threat. When reactionary regimes threaten us, we will resist...
...much of the Arab world, but he was also preparing to announce some energy measures that would stress increased domestic oil production to reduce the nation's perilous dependence on the OPEC cartel. Throughout the industrialized world, meanwhile, governments were struggling to keep alive a recovery from a sharp recession that in large part had been caused by the big jump in oil prices since 1973. In this atmosphere, the cartel's decision was a shocker...
...short stories won a 1970 Pulitzer Prize; of a heart attack; in White Plains, N.Y. Acclaimed for her first novel, Boston Adventure, at age 29, Stafford went on to publish two more novels, numerous short stories and many nonfiction works. The widow of Press Critic A.J. Liebling and a sharp wit in conversation and prose, Stafford said: "I write for myself and God and a few close friends...