Word: sheer
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...themselves, Blake thinks the main obstacle to union is reluctance to have bishops. As for the Congregationalist members of the United Church of Christ, the greatest difficulty will come in becoming a church rather than a loose association of autonomous congregations. Among Methodists, says Blake, the problem is "mathematics-sheer size. The Methodist-Episcopalian reunion talks, which have been going on officially for 13 years, are laboring under the difficulty that the Methodists outnumber the Episcopalians 3 to 1. But in the four-church merger I have proposed, it wouldn't be like that...
Tough Tenors: The Johnny Griffin and Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis Quintet (Jazz-land). Two saxmen of the hard-bop persuasion trade heated solos like a couple of alternately firing spark plugs. Most successful combustions: Funky Fluke, a scrambling exercise in sheer speed, and the old favorite, Tickle...
...onwards, in the fields of mathematics and physical science. This is indeed a big blank . . . In my knowledge of the non-Hellenic civilizations and the higher religions there are appalling gaps. And my knowledge of the aeons of history before these last 5,000 years is little better than sheer ignorance." And so it goes, deficiencies in anthropology, ignorance of geography, indifference to "economic and technological factors...
...Arizona's 700-ft. Glen Canyon Dam. When completed in 1964, the structure will have a capacity of 900,000 kw. of electricity, back up Lake Powell through 186 miles of some of the most dramatic scenery in the U.S. The job of building Glen Canyon compares in sheer size with the land itself. Workers erected from scratch the town of Page, which now has a population of 7,000. A giant refrigeration plant daily turns out 4,000 tons of ice to cool the concrete so that it hardens properly. Perched on the wall of the canyon...
...zany plot. It was little Coquilhatville, a cluster of dilapidated huts and buildings on the hottest, wettest spot along the whole 2,900-mile Congo River. Here the Congolese dignitaries had chosen to gather for their latest round of unity talks, perhaps on the assumption that the sheer discomfort of the place would force an early settlement...