Word: sheer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Anyway, the play has got what it takes; and the production, despite its failings, comes over on sheer poetry value alone...
...Indeed, the time for divorce reform is now! Your fact-loaded dissertation, however, neglects the most significant fact regarding divorce: throughout the country at least 90% of divorce cases are uncontested, and ordinarily the courts learn only what plaintiffs care to tell them. It is sheer nonsense for statutory law to concentrate on marital fault rather than a problem-solving approach while in real life, divorces by consent are being negotiated in law offices. Tragically, the contested cases usually involve greedy or spiteful spouses rather than a motivation to save the marriage...
Trying to preserve the value of the pound is a frustrating and sometimes exasperating task. Noting that British unions continue to make inflationary demands while management clings to ancient inefficiencies, Prime Minister Harold Wilson recently accused Britons of "sheer damn laziness," demanded of both sides "a full day's work for a full day's pay." But despite Wilson's exhortations and despite his government's voluntary "prices and incomes policy," which aims at limiting wage escalation to 3.5% annually, wages last year jumped by 8% while prices rose by 4.5%. Productivity increased only...
...Free Hand. At the first Battle of Ypres in 1914, Allenby rallied his demoralized troops by "sheer strength of character" and broke a German attack that seemed certain to win the war. However, it was only in the summer of 1917 that greatness came looking for Allenby. At first, he wanted to turn it down. Assigned to supreme command of the Middle East, he roared indignantly that he was being "degommered"-demoted. But when the Cabinet promised a free hand and heavy reinforcements, he hit Cairo like a sandstorm-a superbly organized sandstorm...
...falling-down. There are the lordly males who do everything except side-straddle hops. They fling their bodies about the stage like bean bags-somersaulting, jackknifing, slapping their heels. Always they smile, smile, smile. It is all good fun and, despite the Slavic sameness of it all, for sheer exuberance and whoopee making the folk dancers from Eastern Europe are matchless. Americans apparently cannot get enough of them...