Word: sheer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hefty pike shifts. sheer...
...were making the whole subject seem slightly academic. Peking's official press voice, Jenmin Jih Pao, bluntly discarded a recent suggestion by President Johnson that the two countries exchange visits of newsmen, scientists and scholars. Under the headline OLD TUNE, NEW CONSPIRACY, the newspaper called the idea "a sheer daydream." It accused the U.S. of "feigning eagerness to improve Sino-U.S. relations to detract public attention from its deployments for aggression against China...
...more in the 630-seat House of Commons. Wilson's aides were talking less ambitiously of perhaps a 50-seat majority. They feared that Labor supporters might be so mesmerized by the poll predictions that they would stay away from the polls in large numbers out of sheer apathy. If that happened, the Tories might indeed turn the tide in marginal districts and, at least, avert a Labor landslide. By any pollster's calculations, however, victory seemed beyond the Tories' reach...
...eliminated the welt altogether. Another hosier has come out with "pecker" garters, which cover the stocking top with meant-to-be-seen lace; Dior has taken to decorating the top with flowers and Belle-Sharmer has stockings that fasten with snaps. Best solution slim girls have found is pantyhose, sheer tights that do away with girdle and garter (sales have already increased 20%), but even they are far from ideal-bag at the ankle when left loose, rip if they are pulled tight. As one young modern put it: "Let's face it; the only thing that really works...
...sheer dollars, public philanthropy outstripped private philanthropy as early as 1929," says Henry T. Heald, newly retired president of the Ford Foundation. Now governmental philanthropy in education, health, welfare and economic development so vastly overshadows private giving that it accounts for no less than 10% of the gross national product. As Government continues to pick up projects pioneered by the private foundations, such diminished giants of good giving as the Ford, Carnegie and Rockefeller Foundations are taking a thoughtful new look at where to put their money...