Word: sharp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...body and limbs that curl and twist like those of a man old before his time, that it is virtually impossible to imagine anyone else in the part. What Lempert does best is comedy, and, though Zoditch is pathetic, Lempert makes him comic as well, capable of a certain sharp humor. These are exactly the qualities Zoditch needs in order to escape from becoming a parody...
Prime Benefit. Discussions between the two leaders were necessarily tentative and general. As a firm believer in normalized-if not outright neutralized-relations with all countries, Ceausescu welcomed the President's opening remarks. The prime benefit of these relations to Rumania, of course, has been a sharp increase in trade with the West -up 25% in the past four years. It was on this subject that Ceausescu became quite specific: he is eager for Rumania to gain most-favored-nation trading status in the U.S. Congress alone can grant such status (Yugoslavia and Poland are the only Eastern European...
...harsh beauty of the barren landscape around Tranquillity Base as strong unfiltered sunlight etched myriad craters in deep shadow. The 16-mm. motion-picture films of Eagle's touchdown on the lunar surface brought back that dangerous moment with tense immediacy. The movies were so clear and sharp that they allowed scientists to pinpoint the landing area precisely. And with the exact coordinates to guide them, astronomers at California's Lick Observatory were finally able to bounce a laser beam off the reflecting mirror left behind by the astronauts...
...probably unfair to lay the issue out along such sharp either/or lines. All that most Americans contributed to Apollo was enthusiasm and taxes. Rebuilding the cities, attacking poverty and scrubbing the air and water, demand unflagging personal commitment by almost everyone. Such efforts call for an unprecedented exercise in social engineering. They would require the development of new and ingenious management techniques; their expenditure of money and manpower would dwarf the cost of the technical teamwork that put men on the moon...
...record fool you. The next time this horse is entered against a sharp classy New York sprinter with a seemingly mediocre record--beware! Indeed, MISTY RUN, a recruit from last year's Saratoga claiming ranks--a horse who has acquitted himself favorably against tough New York opposition--may fill the ticket...