Word: sharpness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Defensively, Harvard was sharp. In the pitching category (read Harvard hurler Lora Rowning), the Crimson was stingy. In the hitting department, Harvard was clutch...
...glad to see we held together," Butcher said. "We were able to win on a day in which we were not as sharp as usual...
These three types of Singer stories share a sharp urgency, a sense that time is too precious to waste on flowery descriptions or circumlocutions. One character commands another, "Speak simple Yiddish," the language in which all these tales were originally written, and the English translations by the author and others do their best to obey the spirit of this injunction. Storytellers appear suddenly, with scant preamble, and seem eager to get off the page as soon as possible. They punctuate their narratives with such remarks as "To make it short . . ." and "Why drag it out?" The Trap involves yet another...
...businesses ranging from steel to computers can rebound from sharp slumps, what is wrong with the thrift industry? Instead of hitting bottom and starting back up, an estimated one-third of the 3,200 federally insured thrifts in the U.S. just keep falling deeper into the red. The problem is potentially grave, because the ballooning cost of rescuing the ailing thrifts could strain the Federal Government's insurance fund. Last week officials at the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation, which guarantees deposits up to $100,000 and handles troubled thrifts, estimated that the deficit in its fund reached...
...collar against % the wind. Dukakis, who forgot that he was wearing a microphone that allowed the press to hear his comments, whispered to her as he adjusted her coat, "Tonight if I'm asleep, wake me up. Don't let a moment go by." (Kitty cut in with a sharp, "Your microphone's on.") Sometimes, to counteract criticism that he lacks fire, Dukakis will tell audiences, "Kitty thinks I'm passionate...