Word: sharp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...once had given Harry Truman more money than he had asked. Inside the $15.5 billion defense bill which he signed last week was an extra item of $615 million to be spent in starting to build a 58-group Air Force. On this subject Harry Truman had been sharp and clear: he wanted the Air Force held to 48 groups. So with a brisk bit of juggling, he took what he wanted of the bill and left the rest...
...Russian counterproposal also calls for international control and inspection, but it contains a number of sharp little gimmicks: 1) atomic energy research and production facilities for "peaceful purposes" would be owned by individual nations; 2) inspection would be only "periodic," confined to plants, mines, etc. that have been declared officially by the government which controls them; 3) the international body would merely make recommendations to the Security Council on how to deal with offenders, thus subjecting enforcement to the veto...
...Harvard center forward position, Coach Bruce Munro tired a new plan, alternating Jim Bell and Drehmel. The project met with some degree of success, for Drehmel's feeding style was a sharp--and confusing--contract to Bell's crashing, pounding style...
Today the varsity, running 4.2 miles, will include: Dave Gregory, Joe Leeming, John Pankey, Hank Everett, Dick White, Al Master, Dave Cairns, Thayer Scudder, Clarke Coggeshall, Ron Berman, and Steve Sharp...
Susan Steiner '50 and Wilma Levitt '50 bought theirs from a sharp dealer who doubles as a tobacconist. Miss Levitt thereafter disposed of three dozen among her friends...