Word: sheering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...FUNNY thing about Harvard. Just when you think you finally understand how much the Harvard image is exploited in American mythology, the sheer power of the myth reveals itself in yet another way. Just when you think you've finally seen it all--The Paper Chase as a T.V. show--John LeBoutillier '76 turns up in news magazines and signing books at the Coop (even if it was only a couple of copies...
...broader problem of the sheer increase in the number of aircraft in the skies-and the mixing of planes so different in speed, size and sophistication of equipment-is more and more troublesome. This is true despite the fact that as the planes in use have multiplied the number of accidents has by no means risen proportionately. It is a testament to the effectiveness of tougher federal safety standards that there were 4,968 accidents in general aviation service in 1968 (when there were 124,000 planes in use) and only 4,286 accidents in 1977 (when there were...
...largest Israeli community in Sinai. A trim town of white stucco bungalows, a modern shopping center and good schools, it was originally promoted by Moshe Dayan-then Defense Minister in Golda Meir's Labor government-as a potential regional metropolis of 250,000 people whose sheer size would make an Arab attack through northern Sinai impractical. Atzila Safrir, who operates a prosperous sidewalk cafe in Yamit, was infuriated by the way Jerusalem had reversed its support. "For ten years the government brainwashed me," she complained. "Now in two weeks they tell me the whole doctrine has gone down...
...SCAVENGERS were nowhere to be found last Tuesday at Edward J. King's primary night headquarters outside Anthony's Pier Four. Not that there wasn't a goodly share of staggering bodies--between the bar and the sheer crush of it all--but something was definitely missing. The faithful had pitched camp, sweating in their polyester skins and listening to the too-slick band that played "Mack the Knife" too slow and then sprinted through "Stardust". But the scavengers--curious little fish that nose around a campaign for a few months and then, once the blood is spilled, turn around...
...they call politics isn't so different from all the other games you've watched on a big screen, peering through the cigar smoke and hollering at every score--and then the cheers erupted. But they weren't cheers. Screams would be the better word, or maybe squeals: the sheer delight of a naughty five-year-old who wakes up on Christmas morning to find not the threatened lump of coal, but a shiny toy truck in his stocking. Sweet Mother of God, he's actually winning, the cheers were saying, then tailing off to a manageable uproar. But what...