Jim Telfer, who was Scotland coach by that point, considered that Laidlaw's ability to break was Scotland's sharpest attacking weapon in the 1984 Grand Slam, settling the match in the first twenty minutes.

The addition of iron oxide turns glass green and hardens it, causing a louder and sharper tone with a warmer sustain, while cobalt oxide colors it blue and produces the sharpest, loudest tones.

He retired as secretary of state on Jan. 20, 1953, and served on the Yale Board of Trustees along with Senator Robert A. Taft, one of his sharpest critics.

Perpetually self-deprecating, but with the sharpest wit, Mildred keeps busy with near-romances ( her own and those of others ), church jumble sales, and of course the ubiquitous cup of tea.

Burglaries had the sharpest drop: down 35 %, with arson down 33 %, vehicle theft down 17 %, robbery down 15 %, and larceny down 15 %.

The outlines of the continents can often be traced through observations of clouds alone, with the sharpest outlines where very dry land is surrounded by ocean.

Prince Dan then obtained the sharpest possible bishou ( 匕首 ), refined it with poison, and gave it to Jing Ke.

The following variables affect sibilant sound quality, and, along with their possible values, are ordered from sharpest ( highest-pitched ) to dullest ( lowest-pitched ):

This holds the strings down behind the fret as securely as possible with the sharpest possible angle to ensure they will remain fretted.

Eiji is also known to have the sharpest vision on the team, with an exceptional talent for seeing fast moving objects.

The western end of the line 1 platforms have the sharpest curve used by passenger trains on the Métro, with a radius of only 40 metres.

Perhaps the sharpest contrast here is with aggressive mimicry, where a predator or parasite mimics a harmless species, avoiding detection and improving its foraging success.

Remember Mr. President, the crow with the sharpest talons holds on to barley forever.

Bullets Over Broadway currently holds a 96 % ' Fresh ' rating on review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes, with the consensus " Some of Allen's sharpest, most inspired late-period comedy.

The Hurrungane mountain range is also inside the national park with the sharpest peaks in Jotunheimen.

The Scoutpatrols, " Patrulje Indsats ", of the Army Home guard Battalions are organized into platoon-sized scout-units with limited range and capabilities and is the sharpest edge of the reaction Home guard " Indsats " since SSR isn't technically a normal Home guard unit but is even more closely linked to full time SF operations and the MOTINF units are not as physically demanding as scout patrols and is not required to move behind enemy lines etc.

At the Democratic National Convention in 1924, he spoke in favor of condemning the Ku Klux Klan by name in the party platform: " We ask you to cut out of the body politic with the sharpest instrument at your command this malignant growth which, injected, means the destruction of everything which has made America immortal.

With a total of 14 corners, the sharpest with a radius of merely, the circuit runs over four different ground levels with a start / finish straight over in length.

It is scarcely possible to read seriously in contemporary literature, philosophy, or psychology without encountering references to Roquentin's confrontation with the chestnut tree, for example, which is one of the sharpest pictures ever drawn of self-doubt and metaphysical anguish.

The Rip Raps fought several street battles with their sharpest rivals -- the Democratic rowdies associated with the New Market Fire Company.

" While not the sharpest sword in the armory, Von Hunter makes up for his shortcomings with irrepressible optimism, a strong sense of justice, a certain degree of cunning, and excellent armed-combat skills.

However, not having the pawn on e5 makes White's center more fluid ; and some of the sharpest ideas for White are based on a central breakthrough with e5.

Not all exchange variations are quiet ; the Exchange Variation of the Grunfeld Defense is regarded as one of White's sharpest and most aggressive options, since it allows White to build up a massive pawn center, which Black will try to undermine.

Often Black adopts a slightly different move order, playing 2 ... e6 before 3 ... c5 in order to avoid the sharpest lines for White.

The relations between the Christian and Jewish communities come into sharpest focus in sexual matters — as a young man Franzos fell in love with a Christian girl but renounced her because of the barrier between the two groups.

One of hip-hop's first superproducers, Marley Marl was an early innovator in the art of sampling, developing new techniques that resulted in some of the sharpest beats and hooks in rap's Golden Age.

The report also aimed some of its sharpest criticism at the mainstream media.

The cameramen took advantage of improved film stock to produce some of the sharpest and most colourful wildlife footage that had been seen to date.

He largely continued the debunking efforts, and it was under his direction that Blue Book received some of its sharpest criticism.

Considered to have created some of the sharpest swords ever known as he is one of a handful of smiths rated at Sai-jo O-wazamono ( grandmaster of great sharpness ) and has famous swords named Kabutowari ( Helmet Cutter ), Ishikiri ( Stone Cutter ), and Teppokiri ( Gun Cutter ) as relayed in Fujishiro's writings.

In the last decade, it has seen some of the sharpest rises in property values in the entire Seattle metropolitan area.

If the lens designer optimised for sharpness only, the lens would have a small minimum aperture and would be sharpest at full aperture, but would produce too dim an image for some poorly lit scenes.

Though most experts agree that the odds offered on Sport Select are such that even the sharpest punter would have no hope of making a profit in the long term, some have.

32-bit AI was used, as well as motion blending technology which led to some of the sharpest graphics in any football game of the time.

Ron Rosenbaum writes in his 1998 book about The Poison Kitchen :" Their duel with Hitler lasted a dozen years and produced some of the sharpest, most penetrating insights into his character, his mind and method, then or since.

Hunters who do not control the stock travel great distances to barter what they have, valuing obsidian because it " makes the sharpest tools to be had ".

In 1960 the two lines were joined by the so-called Themelthorpe Curve ( believed to be the sharpest bend in the British Rail network ).

Perhaps the sharpest judgement passed on Hauser was the one by Mrs. Biberbach, who commented on his " horrendous mendacity " and " art of dissimulation " and called him " full of vanity and spite ".

Many historians regard Alexander's memoirs as one of the most objective and sharpest sources produced by a Civil War combatant.

Innocenti also produced their own version of the Sprite, using the standard production underframe ( initially shipped out from England ), but clothed in the sharpest of Italian suits, styled by the American Tom Tjaarda, then working at Carrozzeria Ghia.

The Atlanta Zoo reached its period of sharpest decline in the mid-1980s ; it was even named by Parade Magazine one of the " ten worst " zoos in the nation in 1984.

It is characterized by very dense, minutely facetted, and relatively flat surfaces created by working from the particular to the general, using the smallest of brushes and the sharpest of pencils.

Carbon steel: An extremely hard metal, carbon steel provides the sharpest edges and most efficient grinding capability, and is preferred by professional chefs.

It had dropped by three magnitudes in an interval of 6. 5 days, one of the sharpest declines ever noted for a nova.

It is considered one of the sharpest lenses ever made by Nikon.

The style of Balearic Beat is described by its inventors, as opposed to its UK followers, as the ability for the DJ to play across a broad range of styles, from early minimal New Beat to the first extended remixes of pop-songs, making Balearic DJ sets those that tend to have the sharpest turns of musical direction.

: Einar Thambarskelfir, one of the sharpest of bowshooters, stood by the mast, and shot with his bow.

Ray, played by Phil Daniels, is a truly repulsive individual, and intends to get his brother committed to a mental institution so he can sell the farm and blow the proceeds on the high life ; Ken ( Mark Addy ), while not the sharpest pencil in the box at least has a few redeeming characteristics.