Word: sheered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...notice any change whatever in the expression of people's faces. . . . Whether their faces were stolid or keen, arrogant or subdued, not one of them looked happy. Those radiant, laughing faces which you see exhibited in so many Soviet propaganda pamphlets are sheer humbug. The people of Russia don't look like that. They look uniformly disgruntled and unhappy. It is plainly written on their faces that they lead joyless lives...
...stores, 782 art organizations, hundreds of individuals contributed money for exhibition space and running expenses. WPA furnished labor. Famous painters and sculptors hung works that might have graced any museum. Nobodies with an itch for the smell of turpentine displayed everything from incompetent daubs to genuine "primitives." For sheer quantity of canvas and paint, nothing like Art Week had ever been seen even in the peak days of the Italian Renaissance...
...British bomber. The plane took off, heading north over shadowy peaks toward an Albanian port. Soon they ran into heavy mist, then a rainstorm moved in from the sea. When the pilot realized he was off his course, he dropped a flare that lighted up the hills, showed the sheer rock face of a bluff looming ahead. He dropped one bomb to lighten the plane, had no chance to release another. On a desolate peak near Danilovgrad, in neutral Yugoslavia, Ralph Barnes died in action with three...
Again, to say "the surrender of the British fleet is a very remote possibility" is sheer speculation and cannot be used as a reasoned argument on either side. Recall how so many misjudged the action of the French fleet...
...step is taken towards the prevention of home-grown communism or fascism-a step worth more than a thousand investigations by the F.B.I. or Martin Dies. A defense program used to defeat the efforts of the largest and truest group of defenders in the nation can be nothing but sheer travesty, can do little but open the doors to those very forces against which our defense is aimed...