Word: sharp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President's decision represents a compromise of sharp differences of opinion inside the Administration on how the U.S. foreign-aid program ought to be modified. Nearly everybody is agreed that the U.S. has to get out from under its lonely foreign-aid load (estimated 1959 spending: $5.5 billion) in one way or another. The President backs Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson's concept that the U.S. ought to join with prospering Western allies to create a pool of foreign-aid capital clearly identified with free nations. He has approved Anderson's plan for a new International Development Association...
...thanking his benefactor, not understanding why Kaufman kept rushing to the bathroom for refuge. On the other hand, Hart was a compulsive eater (success has since cured him of the affliction), but was too shy to admit his ravenous hunger; while Kaufman operated on their scripts with innumerable scalpel-sharp pencils, Hart would nearly faint on dainty watercress sandwiches or sickening fudge cooked up by the great playwright himself...
Uncertainty over settlement of the steel strike and tightening money last week alarmed many an investor, and the stock market suffered a sharp selloff. The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 9.90 points to 645.90, lowest since June 29. then rallied at week's end to close...
Manufacturers' inventories also reflected the steel strike. Although rising $100 million to $52.2 billion in July, the inventory increases were well below the $400 to $500 million monthly increases earlier this year. August inventory figures are expected to show a sharp decline because of the strike...
...Magician (Swedish). Writer-Director Ingmar Bergman's latest public fantasy, full of sharp physical images and foggy symbols; the story of a mid-19th century Mesmer and his touring Magnetic Health Theater, whose members include his wife (Ingrid Thulin), masquerading as a male helper, his witch grandmother, an ailing actor and an oversexed coachman...