Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Savior of the ward-and especially the Chief-from the organized inhumanity of Big Nurse is a patient named Randle Patrick McMurphy. A laughing, brawling, gambling man of the world, McMurphy begins his duel with Big Nurse in sheer human exuberance and ends it in a grim, heroic struggle to the death...
...effectiveness, plus a return to form of early season standouts Pete Kelley and Denny Lynch, are about the only hope the Crimson has. Neither the defense, nor the ball handling, nor the rebounding, with the exception of rugged Bill Danner, has been exceptional, and the Crimson must rely on sheer firepower...
...Crimson's victory was only one of sheer weight of numbers. The varsity overpowered its local rivals with a rash of mediocre performances. Rick DeLone's 55 ft., 9 1/2 in. toss in the shot put and Ted Bailey's 60 ft., 2 1/2 in. effort in the weight stood out Friday night, and Ed Hamlin's two-mile triumph Saturday, in a meet record 9:42.5, was impressive...
...rascals that we are, we see right through them. (Up to Exam #40. Then our lynx-eyelids droop, and grading habits relax. Try to get on the bottom of the pile.) Again, it is not that A.E.'s are vicious or ludicrous as such: but in quantity they become sheer madness. Or induce it. "The 20th Century has never recovered from the effects of Marx and Freud" (V.G.); "but whether this is a good thing or a bad is difficult to say" (A.E.). Now, one such might be droll enough. But by the dozen? This, the quantitative aspect of grading...
...ever-only after tedious deliberations in which town after town will object to losing tax revenues from consolidation of Pennsy and Central terminals. Still another hur dle lies in the attitude of Justice Department trustbusters, who have taken no position so far but who might argue that the sheer bigness of the merged railroad would outweigh the fierce competition it would face from trucks, airlines and cars. Even if everyone else approves, the roads will certainly face trouble with the railroad brotherhoods, which last week extravagantly denounced the merger agreement as "the most catastrophic proposal . . . ever placed before the public...