Word: sharper
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...saber, Ken Hetzler and Rick Tolbert combined to win four out of six bouts. Tolbert, who has had his troubles in the last few weeks, looked much sharper, and was moving much more quickly. Co-captain Larry Cetrulo easily won all three of his bouts again, but the high point in his afternoon did not happen on the strips...
Dole's role thus will be that of a party spokesman rather than an organizer. Articulate and sometimes abrasive (TIME, July 6, 1970), Dole is expected to be rougher and sharper than the amiable and widely admired Morton. The difference, observed one White House aide, is that "Rog is a big old St. Bernard, while Dole is a hungry Doberman pinscher." One leading Republican offers an intriguing rationale for the switch: Morton was never as partisan as Nixon wanted, so Vice President Spiro Agnew took up the hatchet duties. Now Dole will eagerly perform them, while an attempt...
Gotta get back. Recapture the lost. Rediscover our innocence. Whether it be through old clothes or a CRIMSON quiz on children's books. Or Sha-na-na. Or Camp. (For as the past receded more and more quickly, the parody becomes sharper, more brittle...
...reduction followed much sharper declines in many other interest rates. The Treasury bill rate, for example, has fallen from last year's peak of more than 8% to 5½%. The discount-rate reduction put the Federal Reserve's stamp of approval on these declines, and showed that the board's seven governors believed that the U.S. economy could stand a further easing of interest rates. New York's Chase Manhattan Bank promptly took the hint and led major banks in trimming the prime rate-the minimum lending charge on loans to business from...
...sooo beautiful.' " He did, weighing in last week at a rock-hard 213½ Ibs. His measurements in fact differed in only one respect from those taken at his last fight in 1967: he had added 1 Jin. to his biceps. "I'm hitting much harder and sharper now," Ali boasted. It sounded like the old Cassius con, but his manager, Angelo Dundee, was quick to agree: "He's so close to being the Ali of 3½ years ago that it's scary...