Word: sheer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...played on the radio. Ken Barnes, editor of the industry trade magazine Radio & Records, figures that at least 40% of what is available to the whole American radio audience is "classic" or "oldies" rock. Demographics restrict station playlists and tie up formats; besides, as Barnes puts it, "the sheer cultural weight of what we're now calling classic rock is somewhat stifling...
...rascals that we are, we see right through them. (Up to exam 40. Then our lynz eyes droop, and grading habits relax. Try to get on the bottom of the pile.) Again, it is not that A.E.'s are vicious or ludicrous as such; but in quantity they become sheer madness. Or induce it. "The 20th century has never recovered from the effects of Marx and Freud" (V.G.); "but whether this is a good thing or a bad thing is difficult to say." (A.E.) Now one such might be droll enough. But by the dozen? This, the quantitative aspect...
...also said he had spoken by telephone withHiggins' wife, "a wonderfully stoic individual whois going through sheer hell...
...easy to understand the sense of pride the nation took in its accomplishment. After all, hadn't America been founded on just the same spirit of adventure and exploration? Didn't the sheer effort required to catapult three astronauts millions of miles beyond their native sphere attest, once and for all, to the dominance of American technology...
...Cameron and the others. And last, the ten donkeys that carried water and food (short rations that got shorter as the days passed and the wild walking grew more wonderful). The donkeys advanced along the trail like a party of schoolgirls in dove-gray uniforms, sociable and disorderly, the sheer din of their progress driving off elephants and lions and all other wilder beasts as Toad's parade advanced. Toad surveyed the line of march with a jump of pleasure. En passant with his olive-wood walking stick, he poked cannonballs of elephant dung and judged how long...