Word: sharp
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...West Germany, Acheson's proposal met with sharp resistance. "Believe me," observed then-President Theodor Heuss, "at first it was not very easy to explain to the man in the street that it was his duty to do military service, after he had been told by propaganda that his previous military service had been bordering on criminal action." By this time, Franz Josef Strauss had observed that the man to get along with in German politics was Konrad Adenauer. When Adenauer, under Allied pressure, began talking up German rear mament, Strauss did too. It looked like a road...
...that the Snowman has any more substance than Santa Claus. Sir Edmund's trophy: a scalp that Himalayan natives, who have treasured it as a good-luck hairpiece for some 250 years, believe to be a genuine yeti remain. To get the scalp, Hillary had to do some sharp bargaining with local witch doctors, who feared that disaster might strike if the scalp were taken from their domain. In the end, he got the trinket on a month's loan by promising a donation to a village shrine, guaranteeing an education for a local lad and agreeing that...
Seymour Melman, who is also editor of the publication "Inspection for Disarmament," drew a sharp distinction between disarmament and arms control. Arms control, he said, is a military plan, and it is the "defeatists of American society" who support it those who are "too weak to engage in competition with the Soviet system...
...harder the Jumbos pressed, the more fouls they committed, and the more had passes they threw. Their steady, sharp play that marked the first half disintegrated, and the Crimson added to its lend with good ball-handling and deadly foul-shooting...
...unquestionably a controversial book. Rather, the change stemmed from ideas in another book Lederer had written some ten years earlier, when he was a Nieman fellow at Harvard. A do-it-yourselfer entitled Spare Time Article Writing for Money, the book had two main points. Significantly, one was a sharp criticism of writers who ennoble "arty" literature on the theory that authors write "for themselves." Lederer says that this just...