Word: sharper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fellow, he is forever stealing other chaps' "tuck" (cakes, cream puffs, tarts, toffee). He is hopeless at athletics, can't seem to spell ("I wood have toled you myself but you wood not lissen . . ."), is perpetually in a "digamma," and is constantly delivering such Bunterisms as "How sharper than a thankless child it is to have a toothless "serpent...
...coincidence of new administrations in Washington and Moscow creates a host of urgent questions. The Korean truce crisis opens ill-defined opportunities and painful threats in the struggle for Asia; the European alliance creaks with strain; riots and strikes in East Germany call for a sharper U.S. policy toward West Germany; at home, a new defense budget is tossed about in fuzzy controversy; new Government policies toward taxes, business, farming, labor are on the national agenda...
When Turner Catledge, a good, lively reporter, became managing editor of the New York Times two years ago, he started a quiet revolution to liven up the nation's No. 1 paper. Among the changes: sharper, more concise writing, more feature stories, better pictures, TIMEstyle paragraph marks to break . up stories, sprightlier headlines. One means of communication with the Times's massive staff (20 editors, 600 reporters, 80 copy editors): Winners & Sinners, a lively, irreverent house organ originated by Assistant Managing Editor Ted Bernstein. Bernstein's "bulletin of second-guessing" raps staffers when they are heavyhanded, sloppy...
...lived a life of unruffled domestic felicity that became a national legend.. Five of their six royal children were born at "dear old Sandringham," and during his wife's confinements, the King himself prepared and served her morning cup of tea. Mary, who was better schooled and sharper-witted than he, repaid his gruff affection by curbing his profanity (learned in the Royal Navy) and by teaching herself "to push the little balls around"-her phrase for the King's favorite game of billiards. In January 1936, the Queen wrote in the diary that her husband...
Beyond the control or direct threat of the Red army, Communism is facing even sharper difficulties. Malenkov, in his funeral oration, extended Moscow's official sympathy to the Communists fighting in Korea and Indo-China, but significantly he said not one word about Malaya-a tacit admission of defeat there...