Word: sheering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Brando may mean well, with respect to the Native American Movement, but his lordly countenance on that atoll in the Pacific smacks of autocratic rule. Like most radicals, Mr. Brando seeks power. Granted it's power to do good, but sheer, raw power all the same...
...them, 'Honey, do you remember that night when ... ?'" Whatever they said went into her recorders. It's enough to give a public servant cardiac arrest." It was also enough to prompt a number of legislators to deny having ever had anything to do with Ray. "Nonsense, sheer and utter nonsense," said Hubert Humphrey to rumors linking...
...major decisions being made by the heads of the powerful factions. At the same time, the system strongly encourages deference, even obedience, to tradition and the bureaucratic party machine. It is unusual, if not impossible, for a nonEstablishment figure to soar to the top by virtue of sheer popularity...
...course, Lawrence's massive opus which almost no one has read, "The Seven Pillars of Wisdom." The project took Mack, who also serves as the head of Harvard Medical School's psychiatric division and as a practicing analyst at Cambridge Hospital, over ten years to complete. And while the sheer volume of Mack's research makes the product somewhat hard to digest, the results of his "objective" study throw considerable light on just how psycho-historical analysis should be done...
...sheer quantity of money pouring into Iran's economy raises other difficulties. Pol-e-chah (tea money or bribes and kickbacks) has traditionally added 10% to 15% to the cost of doing business. Now the tab has jumped. A group of Iranian air force officers are awaiting questioning about the building of a $100 million airstrip. According to a government audit, only one-third of the money actually went into construction...