Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weapon, the 100-megaton bomb would be sheer waste, for there is no major city in the world that cannot be wiped out with one well-directed 20-meg-aton bomb. But for scare value, such a bomb has its own impact. And Nikita Khrushchev was seeking scare value with a vengeance last week. Even as he rattled his H-bombs, the Red army was announcing extended tours of service for Russian soldiers due to be discharged in coming months...
...colloquial idiom that is a true echo of the century. But he can give both these masters a run for their lovely money, and he can sometimes outdistance them in the moods of love and childhood or in evocations of the classic past. He cannot match Pound in the sheer demonic influence of his imagination, or Thomas in his song, or Auden in his topicality-in fact, a comparison will often make Auden sound like the journalist and Graves like the artist. Graves could not have written The Waste Land or The Age of Anxiety, two poems the public eagerly...
...afternoon papers complain of invincible distribution problems (their delivery trucks must roll during rush-hour traffic), of bad time breaks at deadline, of stern suburban competition (41 afternoon suburban dailies in the New York area against only twelve morning suburbans), and of the sheer cussedness of the New York commuter. Says the World-Telegram's Managing Editor Wesley First peevishly: "If people read the morning papers going to work in the morning, why don't they all read afternoon papers on the way home...
...wondered whether it had a tiger by the tail. Ford's flip self-confidence and wry, big-city wisecracks seemed to annoy the brass-hats even more than his winning pleased them. "He's one of those typically fresh New York kids who aggravate you out of sheer contrariness," ex-General Manager George Weiss once said. In 1957 he was fined $1,000 when he and five teammates got into a post-midnight brawl at the Copacabana while celebrating ex-Yankee infielder Billy Martin's 29th birthday...
Staggered by the sheer size of the U.S., most foreign tourists are aware that they can do little more than skim the surface...