Word: sharpness
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...cabin, Ochiai had strapped herself into her seat. "The plane started dropping at a sharp angle, almost vertically," she recalled. "Soon there were two or three very sharp impacts, and seats and cushions all around me came tumbling down on me. I was covered with seats, and I couldn't move. I suffered a piercing pain in my stomach. Finally, I was able to unfasten my seatbelt, but I found myself trapped between seats, and I could not move...
...they think the market will bear," says Henry Levin, education and economics professor at Stanford, where the market is bearing up brilliantly. Despite a 60% jump since 1980, to an estimated $16,193, Stanford this year had 17,652 applicants for 2,506 freshman openings. But there is a sharp edge to the situation, and in Levin's case it has cut close to home. On his salary of more than $60,000, Levin finds he cannot afford to send his own five children to Stanford, even with a 50% tuition discount. And like those of a lot of other...
...marauding murder machine is a bandanna around the forehead; and the one time the President tried to cut himself in on Boss territory ("America's future rests ... in the message of hope in songs of ... New Jersey's own Bruce Springsteen"), he was met with an oblique but sharp rebuff. "I kinda got to wondering what his favorite album must've been," Springsteen speculated at a Pittsburgh concert. "I don't think he's been listening to this one," he added, tearing into a ripsaw version of Johnny 99, about an unemployed factory worker who shoots a hotel night clerk...
...dreams back to when such a scene would have been unimaginable: she, sharp as a tack, getting the better of him in an argument; he, strong as a bull, showing off by swinging her into the air--on a beach, perhaps, like the one in front of the condominium where old couples like themselves walk in careful slow motion at the water's edge. Since the case became a cause, photographs of the Gilberts have appeared on television, she in formal gown, he in tails; they, older, in a restaurant posing deadpan for a picture for no reason...
...control negotiations, it declared, should be "to prevent an arms race in space and to terminate it on earth." The words were the exact ones first used last January by Shultz and former Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko (who was left back home in Moscow) to paper over the sharp differences between the U.S. and Soviet positions on space weapons and get arms negotiations under...