Word: sheer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...over Europe-always worked with their own government and backed the Fatherland against the world. When Hitler's acts began to depart from even the tooth and claw morality accepted in earlier times, extending to calculated genocide, they made no moral distinction, possibly, in part, out of sheer inertia. Unlike most Germans, moreover, Alfried was perhaps powerful enough to have restrained the Führer. He did nothing. Long after the Nuremberg tribunal sentenced him to twelve years in prison, he, like Eichmann and the others, protested that he was just doing his duty. Released in 1951 through...
Fees have not been eliminated because 1) the university claims it cannot afford to do so, 2) sheer conservatism as recently criticized by Kingman Brewster of Yale, 3) the stated policy of not being a meritocracy, but favoring prep schools and alumni so as to get potential leaders and financial backing for the future. The high fees help hide this policy by discouraging many applications from coming in. That prevents their ever having to be judged academically. Beyond even that the data shows Harvard is not a meritocracy...
...interpret him, sheer heresy...
...come, or under street lights at secret rendezvous points. For appointments that might never be kept. For the big brains of the fedayeen are not down by the riverside, but in and around Amman. To find them is tricky and tedious. Because of their inbred sense of secrecy and sheer disorganization, it is nightmarishly hard to get these people to cooperate on a project like ours. All we wanted was to know all about their secret bases, their secret techniques, their secret identities...
Armed with electric clippers, an ex -perienced sheep shearer can completely strip the wool from a sheep in three min utes. In Australia, where his specialty is a legendary profession as well as a sheer necessity, a champion shearer soon becomes something of a national hero...