Word: sharpness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...beneath Begin's disarming good manners are a quick, disciplined mind, sharp tongue and a will of tempered steel. He is so savage in the give-and-take of political debate, for instance, that his Knesset speeches became famous as bloodlettings. These dramatic personality contrasts have earned Begin the description "inverted sabra"-after the Israeli desert fruit that is prickly outside but soft and sugary within. The Premier's sweetness is on the surface; the toughness is inside...
...their candlelit way past sculpture and singers, gathering on the Common for fireworks and communal cheer. In Beverly Hills, Calif, 2,000 people had been expected at a modest tree-lighting ceremony; 15,000 showed up. The once tattered social fabric is being rewoven. Across the country, charities report sharp increases in donations of all kinds. In Portland, Ore., the United Way fund drive not only met but exceeded its goal for the first time in a decade. Said Drive Director Howard Studd: "We're really a good barometer of psychological attitudes. People are feeling relaxed and confident about...
...children, ages five to twelve, bound up the steps of an old brownstone in Chicago's rundown Garfield Park area. They settle quietly in a small classroom crowded with battered desks. Maps and vocabulary lists festoon the walls; books overflow the corners. At 9 o'clock sharp, the tall, no-nonsense teacher begins to stride up and down the rows. "What did Socrates say?" she questions. "The uneducated man is like a leaf blown from here to there, believing whatever he is told," chorus the children. "What did Marcus Aurelius tell us?" "He alone is poor who does...
...England's scenic landmarks. For 20 years the argument raged: Should Interstate Highway 93 be routed through New Hampshire's Franconia Notch State Park? Situated in the heart of the White Mountains, the Notch is one of nature's masterpieces, a wonderland of sharp cliffs, fast streams and crystalline lakes ringed by pine-covered mountains. It is also the site of a geological formation that has become a symbol of the Granite State: 40 feet of rock, perched far up a mountainside that has been sculpted by rain and wind into a craggy, natural Mount Rushmore-like...
...sell Vida Blue, Joe Rudi and Rollie Fingers for $3.5 million in cash before they departed in the free-agent market. Kuhn voided the deal, claiming it was not "in the best interests of baseball." Despite all that, Finley was a topflight baseball man, whose shrewd trades and sharp eye for nascent superstars gave Oakland five straight divisional championships, three American League pennants and three World Series championships...