Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nikita Khrushchev is not to be conned that way. Khrushchev figures that he will get a summit meeting with Kennedy not because of how much or how little he smiles but simply because the sheer weight of Russia in today's world makes a summit meeting necessary sooner or later...
Apart from sheer deterrence and probably to many readers' surprise, Kahn presents an extremely intelligent (he would say " his term for himself and all other analysts who accept his approach) discussion of army control. He insists that any strategy we adopt whether his or one less complete must be able to incorporate arms control...
...statistics were not really very pertinent, for the debate has come down to more intangible things: now, all parties regard the important question as one of how well the College can perform a function rather than one of sheer number. The anti-expansionists, led by the Masters, stress that Harvard's role as an educational leader requires a freedom to experiment which can come only if the Houses remain cohesive units, not overburdened with the pressures of crowding. In direct opposition, some administrators feel that a slight increase in needed as a stimulus to educational innovation and as a check...
...several letters and articles in recent undergraduate publications. Entrance requirements consisting entirely of a rigorous examination attach little value to the well-rounded school record or to personal evidence of untapped ability; rising academic standards and an expanded scholarship program inevitably produce fewer parties and more hours devoted to sheer hard work...
...Washington. For other news, they must rely on the wire services. The services do a bad enough job, but the further damage inflicted by local editors who chop AP copy to bits is quite unnecessary. The old saw the "foreign news doesn't sell papers" is sheer hypocrisy in a one-paper town where the editor doesn't have to worry about sales...