Word: sharpness
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...nonprofit organization - based in Thumbod, a tiny village of swaying palms an hour outside the state capital of Trivandrum - has infused yarn with organic herbs and plant extracts, and claims that regular contact with cloth made from this material will relieve itches, rashes and other skin disorders. With a sharp eye for the contemporary obsession with Eastern traditional medicine, the weavers have dubbed their cloth ayurvastra - referring to the ayurvedic principles on which production is based. After cleaning, the raw yarn is coated with a natural gum, and it's then soaked in medicinal dyes prepared with pomegranate, turmeric...
...even Viagra was not enough. After the pills, “She slipped off the plastic sheath on the end, exposing a very sharp looking needle...
...boys’ jaws dropped and they cringed in sympathy. More laughter ensued with the less-than-brilliant simile that followed: “the thought of the sharp needle...hit Steven like a fist...
...imperative” for the Harvard teams to compete against BC as a prelude to the NCAA championships in March, it was also part of his policy to have as many matches as possible in addition to its Ivy League bouts to keep the teams sharp. “The Ivy League is probably one of the strongest leagues in American fencing, if not the strongest,” he said. “We try to utilize the [interposed] events as much as possible to keep us focused and in shape and intense for this weekend...
...real energy came from the ex-presidents. It all started when Joseph Lowery, the former head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, once headed by Dr. King, used his few minutes at the pulpit to read a sharp-edged poem that praised Mrs. King and cut at the current president. "Coretta knew, and we knew, there were no weapons of mass destruction over there but there were weapons of misdirection right down here...