Word: sharpness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...rian forces added to the death toll. In Kolwezi, suspected rebel sympathizers were taken in a long line to a quarry on the city's outskirts for interrogation; from time to time the sharp rattle of gunfire filled the air. Toward week's end, President Mobutu ordered his troops to clear civilians from a 65-mile stretch of Shaba province along the Angolan border. The area, he warned, would be a fire-free zone, in which Zaïrian troops would have permission to shoot at anything that moved...
That prospect brought a predictably sharp response from the Soviets. Said Gromyko pointedly: "We see no need to give up existing negotiating channels or to restructure them." In some other respects, the Russian proved conciliatory, offering to negotiate a "substantial" reduction in strategic arms...
Wolfson's next coup was gaining control in 1949 of Capitol Transit, the Washington, B.C., bus system, for $2.2 million and selling it seven years later for $13.5 million-after Congress investigated sharp fare increases, deteriorating service and alleged financial improprieties, and then refused to renew his franchise. He bought control of Merritt-Chapman & Scott, a respected construction firm, and in half a dozen years had raised its net worth from $8 million to $132 million. He also used the firm to absorb companies that made everything from ships (the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk) to movies (The Babe Ruth...
...picking over the odds and ends in the Freeport, Me., flea market when his eye caught an old photograph of some 2,000 Protestant ministers. He bought the picture and took it back to his Brooklyn studio. Looking at it with a magnifying glass, he marveled at the tack-sharp faces and the lack of dis tortion at the ends of the long horizontal photograph. "It suddenly occurred to me," says Dantzic, "that I had no camera in my studio that could do that." After more than a year of inquiries, he found and borrowed the camera he wanted...
...Crimson nine, lacking the sharp form that brought home wins in eight of their last ten regular season games, dropped two straight to earn the dubious distinction of being the first team knocked out of the NCAA District One playoffs that opened here Wednesday...