Word: sheer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...South Pole, made his way to a spot his group had picked as the exact locus of the earth's bottom, the South Pole. There, he squinted into the wind and looked around. But he took no readings, noted no data. Siple was out for the sheer fun of standing on the pole in the record-breaking cold...
...administrators. But, ignorant of this, the story goes, Roosevelt approached Eliot and asked him how he was going to vote in the 1900 presidential election. The legend has several variations, all of which glorify F.D.R. as a brash, bright young man who charms the story from Eliot through sheer daring...
...When he was an Air Force assistant attache in Moscow, he wrote some of the best air-intelligence reports about the Soviet Union that the U.S. had ever received. As a longtime Pentagon staff officer, he managed to steer clear of cliques and cabals, and win a reputation for sheer performance, for all-out mastery of Air Force doctrine and operations. "White," says a former commander, "has the ability to step back for a long look. He is not a home-run hitter. He's just the league's leading batter...
Last week, despite this frank confession, Stopper Corke was haled into court, fined ?2 and summarily ordered to get up ?16.0.5 in back insurance payments. "It's sheer hypocrisy!" snorted the Stopper. "The law says thieving isn't a job and is illegal. Then when it wants its cut, it says it is a job and legal enough to pay insurance on. The law's dead crooked...
...sophisticated fairy tale, Time Remembered is sheer Molnár-and perhaps not quite sheer enough in itself. It has been attractively fairy-tailored: imaginative Oliver Smith sets, chic Miles White costumes, pretty Vernon Duke background music. And Anouilh has given it good writing enough, and elegant mannerism enough, of its own. But at times the play seems merely thin where it should be diaphanous, merely slight where it ought to be airy. Perhaps it needs a born pastry cook like Molnar, with his delicately browned, bite-sized ironies and his lightly philosophic macaroons. Perhaps it needs a more pervasive...