Word: sharp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Decline ... But by 1900, the party was forced to choices. "Would it champion the cause of small business or would it go where the power and money were, with Big Business?" The party chose Big Business. When sharp division arose between employer and employee, says Webb, the party chose the employer...
...accuser, Whittaker Chambers, quietly went back over his old story: that Alger Hiss, a trusted government official facing trial for the second time on a charge of perjury, had fed secret documents into ex-Communist Courier Chambers' spy ring. But to the familiar mosaic he added a few sharp, new fragments...
...applies to his new job as West Germany's Chancellor. Actually, Adenauer is a great deal better than other candidates; he ranks far above most other figures on the German political scene. The only man who approaches Adenauer's stature is the Socialists' Kurt Schumacher. With sharp, sardonic intelligence and fierce oratory, one-armed, one-legged Schumacher accuses Adenauer of being dominated by Ruhr industrialists and the Roman Catholic Church, belabors him because some former Nazis have drifted into his party. Other leading Socialists: hulking Carlo Schmid, able party strategist, and West Berlin's tough Mayor...
...could be guessed at by competent physicists. But Senator Johnson's dope, presumably coming direct from the Atomic Energy Commission, was far more valuable to an enemy than any rumor that might have been planted deliberately. Last week Congressional leaks (i.e., Senator Johnson) got a sharp rebuke from President Truman, who demanded that such leaks stop. But the beans the Senator spilled had already rattled their way around the world...
...meeting, Collins' work-in-progress was denounced as "vicious Communist propaganda." Said Collins: it was merely "what I believe to be true, based on personal and vicarious experience." On Thanksgiving, N.Y.U. officials settled the matter to their own satisfaction by clearing the sketch off the wall because of "sharp student controversy . . . without passing judgment on either its artistic or philosophical merits...