Word: sheering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...easter eggs made of alumnium that look like walnuts, the other figurines on top of roofs in a picture of a family at the fair, Uncle Sam gesturing to the thin air next to a telephone pole, all of these attest to the madness of this world, the sheer absurdity. So you might as well sit back and enjoy the symmetry of the boy and his mother on one side and the bush and its shadow on the other; or become disquieted by the rough curve of the Great Pink Snail's pond and the parallel curve of the fence...
...EVIDENCE for their belief that these ties are binding more and more people together today, Moynihan and Glazer point to the sheer number of ethnic conflicts that have erupted in the past twenty years: Catholic and Protestant in Belfast, Walloon and Fleming in Belgium, Greek and Turk in Cyprus, black and white in the US, etc., etc. They appear depressingly correct on that point...
...more important role in Mora's analysis of the Depression. Roosevelt is successfully depicted as the gentlemanly savior of the working classes, the voice of reason in the face of Republican conservatism and most of all, a great actor and showman, winning over huge blocks of votes by sheer charm. The film shows him at home playing with his grandchildren, and cruising in the Long Island Sound in his family yacht. But never is Roosevelt so effective as when he mimics his political antagonists. Mora records him in a 1936 speech saying, "The opposition has called me an ogre...
...sheer frustration inescapably built into the job that is the Secret Serviceman's greatest burden. Agents are fully prepared to do anything to protect the President?even to lay down their lives. Richard Keiser, chief of the present White House detail, bears a rough resemblance to President Ford; when asked if he thought he could ever be shot by mistake, he replied, "I hope so." Nonetheless, all agents are acutely aware that there is simply no way to ensure that a President who comes in frequent contact with his fellow Americans can be utterly free from harm...
...were paved with gold. People like this constantly interrogate the American visitor about salaries, apartment size, leisure time, and so on, not because they are faring particularly badly, but because the image of unlimited wealth and opportunity in the U.S. has yet to be dispelled. Others wonder more about sheer size--size of buildings, of cities, of airports or of cars. Still others, perhaps with a more defined political awareness, have questions about poverty, unemployment and the skid-row syndrome. Few, if any, indicate signs of envy, but there wasn't one who wasn't curious...