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Word: sharpness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bernstein, at 5-ft., 2-in. by far the smallest player on the court, made her varsity debut after sitting out last season for a cartilage operation, and impressed with good ball-handling skills and quick, sharp passes...

Author: By Elizabeth N. Friese, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: UMass Women Defeat Cagers | 11/30/1978 | See Source »

Chris Kimball at 167 lbs. and John Williams at 190 were not sharp. Kimball, coming off a four year lay-off from wrestling, succumbed twice, as did Williams...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Matmen Fall to B.U., UMass in Debut | 11/29/1978 | See Source »

Curry, a good ball-handling guard forward, and Wendy Carle, a sharp-shooting forward, each averaged over 11 points a game last season, and can be expected to provide plenty of scoring punch...

Author: By Elizabeth N. Friese, | Title: Women Cagers Open Tonight; Curry Leads Crimson Attack | 11/29/1978 | See Source »

...name from the dictum of the foppish writer Ward McAllister, who claimed in 1888 that there were only about 400 people in fashionable New York society who were at ease in a ballroom. Often tempered by a disarming folksiness. When a Yankee visitor, on meeting Chief Justice Susie Marshall Sharp of the North Carolina Supreme Court, asked how she was addressed, she replied: "Everyone just calls me Judge Susie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's New Manners | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

...stomach cancer (down more than 60%), colon-rectum (down 5.6% for men, 22.5% for women) and uterine cancer (down 59.5%). But the death rate for lung cancer, which has been repeatedly linked to cigarette smoking, has grown by 200%. Cancer Society officials attribute at least part of that sharp rise to the great increase in the number of women smokers in the past few decades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cold Turkey | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

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