Word: sheered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would U.S. women do without silk stockings? Some predicted that they might copy their English sisters, paint their bare legs stocking-color (see cut). A hopeful note in the panicky bedlam was a report of a new stocking made of cotton mesh which "wears like iron" and "looks very sheer...
...speaker's table. He warned Japan that, while Britain had no desire to pick a quarrel, she would not let her interests in the Far East be set aside. He warned the U.S. that Hitler would soon make a specious peace offer, which Britain would reject ("For sheer efficiency as a liar, Hitler stands alone in history...
...Magnon man did not make elaborate pictures to decorate his home. The pictures are most often in inaccessible crags or in the remote recesses of inhabited caves. Nor did he make them from sheer love of beauty, for the pictures are often so superimposed, retouched and crowded as to be quite unesthetic. His motive was religious. The cavern murals are a form of sympathetic magic: depicting an animal gave the hunter power over it, made the kill easier. In the eerie, torchlit, painted chambers, professional sorcerers led the hunters in ceremonial dances before the chase. Sometimes they hurled their spears...
...racial theory and evolutionary theory are incompatible and bluntly contradictory." So the Nazis "plugged" a different theory-a theory of creation, according to which man developed suddenly during some splendid Wagnerian cataclysm which thrust lower organisms into a new environment where only those creatures survived who modified themselves through sheer force of will power...
...main British column, when the attack came, was sent along the top of the sheer 300-foot escarpment. The British had threaded their way far to the south east of Hellfire Pass, and hoped, by a wide swing, to encircle the German positions...