Word: sheering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...expecting that Yale might throw a few ringers at us," offensive star Jeff Garrity said last night. But Garrity feels the sheer bulk of the Kirkland offensive strike force--the team features 17 rotating players--will be more than enough to stem the Eli tide...
...children and the mentally ill. But the concept of a genetically-and environmentally-programmed existence, of an a-responsible, un-free person rebounding from punishment to reward, has stuck in the craw of humanists from George Bernard Shaw to William F. Buckley, Jr. Metaphysics aside, they have argued, the sheer complexity of our experiences would preclude a valid forecast of future action...
...simply bring the news of each day to its readership. Rather, the Crimson apparently continues to check the facts of each story which appears and is not ashamed to bring new-found knowledge, once it has sincerely and innocently defamed the character of the subjects of their stories. The sheer size of the corrections column corroborates this fact. And the consistency of this column points to the fact that each day's paper is not allowed to "rest in peace," rather, it is searched with a fine-toothed comb in order to correct any and all misinformation that anyone with...
...sheer perversity behind that assignment: Vidal is surely aware that 50 is barely puberty in the life of a politician. Could he be subjecting himself to the chaos of political conventions because of an old obsession, the one prize life has denied him? How could a writer resist the fantasy: a hopelessly deadlocked convention; a sudden mammoth coming-to-trie-senses by the delegates; a whisper cascading into a roar that will not be gaveled into silence. And out into the glare of klieg lights and a forest of microphones there steps, at last, the Best...
...Sheer Madness...