Word: sheer
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Lovett: In general terms, Mr. Chairman, my answer to that would be yes. While I am not familiar with the details of the military requirements ... it seems to me that the country's security lies in fields that embrace things other than sheer military end-products themselves-our position in the world, the psychological image which we present to the world as a whole. I feel that we are doing less than our best...
...K.B.E., 47, is Prime Minister of Nigeria, Africa's most populous (35 million) nation, which will get its independence next Oct. 1. His name comes from the little village of Tafawa Balewa in the Northern Region, the huge Moslem half of the country, which dominates Nigerian politics by sheer weight of numbers (19 million). In a region ruled by the emir aristocracy, Abubakar's rise was especially noteworthy, for he was a talakawa, child of a poor commoner. Uncommonly bright, he closed the gap with education, luckily gaining entry to the area's only college and later...
...runs from the halfway mark before the officials would turn him loose. Scorning the U.S.-style steering wheel, he handled the steering ropes with the sensitive, iron hands of a jockey, hit speeds close to 90 m.p.h. At the 180° Shady Corner curve, he swung high on its sheer wall, then dropped surely down to the narrow slotted straight away to pick up precious speed. When the times were computed, Monti had won the National A.A.U. two-man championship. What was more, Monti's best time of 1:12 broke the course record...
Even the finest small man in the game is beginning to worry. Boston's great Bob Cousy (6 ft. 1 in., 176 lbs.) sees little point in raising the basket to offset sheer height ("Why penalize someone just because he's 7 ft. tall?"), is more interested in the proposal to zone the floor: one point for successful shots within 6 ft. of the basket; two points for shots from 6 to 25 ft.; three points for shots from farther...
...dancing, though, is what matters, and it is magnificent. Maya Plisetskaya, the public favorite among Russia's younger ballerinas, dances the double role of Odette-Odile with a mixture of faultless precision, lyric grace and sheer animal power; Nicolai Fadeyechev as the Prince and Vladimir Levashev as the Evil Spirit are virile, commanding performers. On the other hand, the ballet itself is simply an arrant Arcadian anachronism, and Tchaikovsky's music, except for a few eddies of glorious melody, fills Swan Lake with sugar water. But along with all its faults, the picture provides U.S. ballet-goers...