Word: sheered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plays are mainly unpopular* in London-largely because of their subject, but partly because of their shortcomings. But sheer escape, sheer fluff and frivolity has not completely swamped the theater. Despite the terrific jump in productions, musicals have not multiplied: ten last season, ten this. Of three U.S. clicks in London, one-The Man Who Came to Dinner-is farce, but Claudia is semiserious, and Watch on the Rhine wholly so. Shakespeare was a sellout when John Gielgud revived Macbeth in July. Shaw has been a hit since Vivien Leigh revived The Doctor's Dilemma in March. (Winston Churchill...
...other days, when sheer physical energy was less an asset, Knox often lost more votes than he gained. Once he charged that New Deal policies had brought the country to a state where "no life insurance policy is secure; no savings account is safe." Reporters had a field day badgering Republican Herbert Hoover, a director of New York Life Insurance Co., about supporting a man with such a low opinion of insurance...
...north engineers, with equipment from the Alaska coast, hit troubles of their own. The cats, seeking a roadbed, tore off the top moss, exposed sheer blue ice. Sun-melted ice sucked down the roadway. The engineers scraped the moss back, over the ice, put a corduroy planking on top and let nature freeze a solid roadbed. Pushing out of Whitehorse and Slana, one group paused briefly one afternoon on the shore of Kluane Lake at the foot of 19,000-foot peaks. Beside the log cabin of Trapper Hayden and his half-breed Indian wife the Engineer band played...
...have been an interesting if not too plausible psychological problem, and then leaves it daugling in mid-air. All of this ends in the fatal error of misleading the audience without letting them know they're being misled, and the net result is Hollywood at its most chaotic. For sheer inconsistency of character, plot, and theme, "Crossroads" will be a tough one to beat...
...Farley knew that he was through if he lost this battle. His break with the President was now final and complete; perhaps he had paid his last visit to the White House unless he could force his way back by sheer weight of political power...