Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...important decision: but knowledge still leaves an audience a good distance from feeling. One way Miss Primus drew her audience closer was to have them sing the antiphonal chant for her last piece, the conga; and others of her dances, like the jivey "high-life," include the audience by sheer force of exuberance...
...sheer heft could help him run South Viet Nam, Big Minh would have no problem. A Gulliver among his country's Lilliputians, he stands just under 6 ft. and weighs around 200 lbs., has a pronounced slouch caused from constantly having to stoop over to hear his countrymen. American military advisers nicknamed him Big to distinguish him from a smaller-statured fellow officer who is not related to him, Lieut. General Tran Van ("Little") Minh. Vietnamese good-naturedly call Minh...
Pinning the Blame. By its sheer size Hachette has given wing to the suspicions that its grand design includes a monopoly of everything printed in France. Detractors say that such independent newspapers as Le Figaro and L'Aurore, which have formed their own distribution apparatus, are allowed to do so largely because Hachette fears the political repercussions involved in any attempt to squeeze them...
Along with the pleasures and some of the problems of the good life, West Germany must face a number of other realities. Konrad Adenauer tried to shape reality into what he wanted, and by sheer will and political genius he usually had his way. Under the softer, more flexible and more amiable leader ship of Ludwig Erhard, some long dammed-up changes are bound to burst forth. One of them is the feeling...
...then continued to say--absolutely ignoring the mass of evidence from The American Scene itself which I use to support my view of this book--that its real merit is the sheer experience of James's sensitivity. "Reading the book is like wading into a great pool of consciousness...