Word: sheered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like to say something about the British Tommy . . . not only for myself but for every American who has seen active service with the British. . . . For sheer guts and the ability to keep coming back he has no superiors. I remember one night at Alamein. . . . We were trying to get through the minefields. . . . Tanks were to blast their way through, spread out on the other side, and work forward. We were being followed by a unit of light infantry...
...Universal) is Abbott & Costello's eleventh time around in the movies. There is every indication from most audiences that sheer, unspecialized hokum continues to have a power of appeal rivaling that of Mozart or the Gettysburg Address...
Here on this Pacific island, there are few things I cherish now more than the sheer pleasure I find in reading. Much of that pleasure has been directly due to the battered Look Homeward, Angel now making the rounds in the barracks...
...bombing Germany into submission was "worth trying." Soberer heads recognized this as a victory of air power, but a victory won under laboratory conditions. The island fell because it was possible to isolate it completely from supporting bases on the mainland. This was the decisive factor, not the sheer weight of bombs. Malta in three years of war had taken many times the weight of bombs dropped on the Italian outposts; it still stood because its supply lines were never severed...
...commitments that are not backed up by the power to make them effective. "We are in no position to lift the standard of living in China, in Russia, among 400,000,000 impoverished people on the overpopulated peninsula of Europe. . . . The whole conception of ... infusing the Four Freedoms is ... sheer political buncombe. . . . We should put a limit on our total postwar aid, both in time and in dollars . . . postwar aid should be restricted to whatever nations took certain elementary steps in their own behalf." But underlying these specific proposals, and others less widely believed, there is the deeper need...