Word: sheer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jackie Kennedy: Welcome to the Politicians' Wives Union! We are nonpartisan, have no dues, duties, charter or elected officers, but we are legion, and stalwartly defend every member who likes to read a book-for sheer pleasure...
...after serving six years in the Texas state legislature. He became House Speaker in 1940, has held that post ever since except for the two intervals. 1947-48 and 1953-54, when the Republicans had a majority in the House. By virtue of his early start, plus sheer longevity, Rayburn has established two records that, apart from his other achievements, entitle him to a niche in history: he has served in the House longer than anybody else in the annals of Capitol Hill, and he has held the office of Speaker far longer than anybody else, having long since broken...
...world, Spaak's name has long seemed to be synonymous with Belgium itself. During the war and in the reconstruction era that followed, Spaak was sometimes Belgium's Premier, but nearly always its Foreign Minister. As such, he was a major architect of postwar Europe, achieving by sheer eloquence and ability a stature that his country's size would not have otherwise commanded in the world's councils. He was elected the first president of the U.N. General Assembly in 1946, has since often given the impression that Belgium itself is too small an arena...
...weeks ago, Gossip Columnist Walter Winchell sat down behind a typewriter and pecked out a column. It was the first he had written in nearly two months; but whatever Winchell had to say he kept to himself. "I went to the typewriter from sheer boredom, doing nothing," he said. "I played around with a column and then tore it up. I'm just not ready to pick up again...
...with an aunt's legacy of ?300 and his mother's dying injunction to make something of himself. Almost awed by his presumption, he decides to be a lawyer, and it becomes a question of which will give out first-his money, his marks, or his health. Sheer grit gets him to the Inns of Court...