Word: sharpened
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...definitely need to work on our power-play," Stickles said. "We don't play another Ivy game until after the Switzerland trip [over Christmas], so we have plenty of time to sharpen...
...Kleinfelder] wanted us to really shape it up and sharpen our game," junior Jenny Walser said...
Clearly these are not the golden secrets of anyone's success. They do not sharpen the nation's competitive edge. But let us not be unthankful for small things. ("Think about the foods you order and how attractive they are to be eaten," Bixler suggests. And would that more people did!) At least until the Japanese get hold of it, isn't image consulting what America the Beautiful is all about...
Bennett, if confirmed, will oversee and coordinate all the Government's drug efforts. Next to the deficit, drugs are the hot spot of politics. Like Bush, Bennett believes the U.S. must sharpen attacks on both the supply and the demand ends of the drug trade. But long ago he saw that education was the only way finally to control the scourge. "The core problem is the children," he told friends, "particularly children in the big cities. They are dying from drugs...
...Hone and sharpen, play around with the possibilities--that was how Wolfe spent the greater part of the mid- and late sixties, trying almost every literary trick to discover how far one can go--and still be a journalist. Then the books came, books which reflected Wolfe's earlier essays and his knowledge about every and anything...