Word: sharpness
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...first sharp clang shattered the crystalline morning and dwindled to nothing, then was followed by another, somehow more startling than the first. A frightened baby began to wail - the only voice heard in a field of many thousands...
...were sharp, we came out strong, and we kept the pressure on throughout the seven innings,” Allard said...
Hindsight blows just as strong through events like this. It's the nature of tragedy that it comes packaged in irony, sharp little stabs of coincidence that make it hurt even more: there was the Holocaust survivor who died trying to save his students from a mass murder committed on Holocaust Remembrance Day. There was the international-studies student who had seen the carnage at the Pentagon on 9/11 and wanted to be a peacemaker; he died in French class. There was the killer who signed into English class with a question mark, known by the few who knew...
...close. Now, however, global markets are focused on a better question: is China's growth so strong that it is going to fuel inflation, followed by sharply higher interest rates, and, conceivably, problems in a deeply dysfunctional domestic banking system? And, will there be a hard landing, meaning a sharp reduction in growth from around 11% to anywhere between...
Last Friday night, unfurled flags from across the world hung limply on the walls of Adams dining hall, making a sharp contrast with the dark-stained mahogany columns and gilded chandeliers. Somehow, it was the perfect integration of the international and the American aesthetic. It was the Woodbridge Society’s annual Fiesta Mondiale, and it was completely sold-out. Originally created by five international students in 1994, the Woodbridge Society is enjoying its most successful year to-date with membership numbers now swelling into the hundreds. No longer simply a refuge for foreign students, the society has become...