Word: sharper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that Western friendship for Yugoslavia had been based only on 1) the Soviet Union's conflict with Yugoslavia and 2) the hope that Yugoslavia would return to capitalism. Khrushchev's speech, underlining hostility to the West and stressing the unity of the "Socialist" camp, gave a sharper edge to Tito's prepared address. What Tito had to say, read in faltering Russian, tamely supported Soviet policy on the two Germanys (though Belgrade has not hitherto recognized the East German government), endorsed Soviet disarmament proposals (without guaranty for inspection) and approved Communist China's claims on Formosa...
...Party is far enough to the left to be the chosen instrument of the Communists, and the British cannot quite decide whether he is a prisoner of the Communists or the simple nationalist and follower of Nehru that he professes: to be. In Asian ears his merdeka has a sharper ring...
Listening to Chitchat. What had he done? Mostly listened with a sharper and more discerning ear than anyone else to the chitchat of the enemies of the U.S. ever since the beginning of World War I. According to World War II Chief of Staff George Marshall, the cracking of the famed Japanese "purple" code, for which Friedman was principally responsible, led to vital foreknowledge of Hitler's intentions in Europe and gave the U.S. Navy a priceless advantage in intelligence that led to such critical victories as Coral Sea, Midway and subsequent bold carrier strikes. Friedman himself gently declines...
...more interesting clouds. All they have to do is to set their detecting apparatus to ignore the waves from the obscuring cloud and tune in the waves from the clouds behind it. Harvard's new telescope will be particularly adapted to this selecting process. It will also have sharper vision than the 24-ft. "dish" that has been doing Harvard's radio astronomy. If the moon were a source of 21-cm. waves, the 24-ft. telescope could not distinguish it from two other moons ranged in a line beside it. All three would share the same blur...
...defensive work, moreover, has repeatedly collapsed in second half play. Sophomore goalie Dick Mackinnon held M.I.T. to only five goals, for the lowest enemy total all year, but he will have to look still sharper against Penn to outweigh weak defensive play...