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Usage examples of sharps.

Arthur Jellison was an old friend, and Charlie Sharps did not like blackmail.

Then Jellison said, more to himself than Sharps, "So the Russkis are going.

Now the star was Charles Sharps, who talked about comets and the importance of knowing the Sun and planets and stars.

With enough publicity we might get the probe up, and somebody like Sharps really will understand comets.

Tim remembered from the monitor downstairs that Sharps of JPL had been giving a lecture on comets, and that Johnny seemed to know a great deal about astronomy.

Johnny gave Sharps an approving smile and decided how the program would go for the rest of the night.

It hadn't been hard to persuade Charlie Sharps to invite him out to JPL.

Not like when I was growing up and we didn't know anything, Sharps thought.

Dan stopped near the top, blowing hard, and Sharps got a shoulder under his armpit and managed to half‑carry him the rest of the way to the top.

The ground danced under his feet, and Sharps sat down too hard, then found himself rolling toward the stairs.

This time there was the sound of breaking glass, but when Sharps looked over the JPL complex he didn't see any obvious damage.

The hot pavement slid gratingly away, throwing Sharps into a double somersault, then heaved and bucked once more, and the world was filled with sound and roaring and screams.

One wall had fallen, and through it Sharps saw the first unmanned lunar, the metal spider that had gone to the Moon to scoop up its surface.

Now Sharps had time to wonder who had been on the stairway behind the cameramen.

They all wanted advice, orders, some sense of purpose, and they expected Charles Sharps to provide it.