Word: sharp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...state's victims (mostly children under ten and the aged) last week, there was little that doctors could do but keep down body temperatures. Work crews were spraying swamps with oil and DDT. To everyone in the affected areas. Health Commissioner Roscoe Kandle issued a sharp warning: stay clear of swamps and farmyards where mosquitoes or infected animals abound...
...only did he design thousands of parts, but he had to get cost estimates for each one from hundreds of suppliers -without springing the secret. His sales strategy was to outflank corporate channels, sell the small car directly to G.M.'s hard-reigning president, Harlow Curtice. But sharp, inquiring "Red" Curtice was a tough man to sell. To do it, Cole would have to present him with a prototype car and an argument virtually without flaw-at a carefully selected time when the market was just beginning to ripen. Cole well knew that Curtice could ask him hundreds...
...have long since outlived their usefulness, and such principles as nationalization are passing from the Labourite campaign vocabulary. Unfortunately, however, the Labour Party is committed to renationalizing steel and road haulage, even though this policy is now a recognized liability. On this, as on many issues, there is a sharp division between the doctrinaire socialists and the moderates. As Sir Winston Churchill, again a candidate for Parliament, observed recently, "Some of them regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk...
Varsity right halfback Charley Steele rivaled Ekpebu in effectiveness. Steele excelled on defense, and his sharp, accurate passes helped keep the ball in Tufts territory most of the game. Marsh McCall and Bill Rapp, Steele's halfback partners, were instrumental in foiling Tufts' spasmodic offensive efforts...
...streets pouring disconsolate rain, and the nerve-wracking, shouting bustle of a public market. On the other hand, he tends to hammer home his crises much too obviously, and he has not generally done well with his principals. They tend toward loud whispers, harsh, throaty low tones, and quick sharp short sudden utterances--a pattern that has become a movie cliche...