Word: sharp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they floundered between a policy that would build up West Germany as soon as possible (which by & large is the U.S. aim); and a suspicious policy of keeping West Germany's sovereignty and industrial potential in stringent check (which is the French aim). Western policy needed new, sharp definition, particularly since the Red puppet state in East Germany was relentlessly wooing Germans in the name of national unity. It was Ernie Bevin who had finally insisted that the ministers get together and do something; he was particularly concerned over continued dismantling of German industry, on which the French have...
...genial Tennessean has undoubtedly noted the Crimson's weaknesses (none-too-sharp guard play and faulty pass defense) and will exploit them to the full. Valpey must have also noted the Eli defensive flaws (mediocre end play and weak pass defense) and will direct the Harvard offense against them...
Under the high overcast the air was sharp and clear; from the control tower at Washington National Airport, swarthy, earnest 21-year-old Glen T. Tigner could see for miles out over the Virginia countryside. Traffic was light. A war surplus P-38, owned by the Bolivian government, took off for a practice flight at 11:37. It snarled off out of sight. Then there was a lull before Eastern Air Lines flight 537, a four-engine DC-4 inbound from New York, asked for landing instructions...
...text of The Little Foxes that Regina has altered: the storyline scarcely varies an inch. It is the tone. With its sharp claws and ruthless clawing, its treacherous wiles and wheelchair theatrics, The Little Foxes might have yielded something inordinately operatic. But though his big scenes are sometimes florid enough, Composer Blitzstein's version of the Alabama Hubbards is fundamentally comic. Regina much less suggests a social critic excoriating an emerging class of plunderers than a first-rate showman exhibiting a prize assortment of hellions. Blitzstein's Hubbards cavort the whole time they conspire, and the general effect...
Studio One (Mon. 10 p.m., CBS-TV). Two Sharp Knives, with Wynne Gibson...