Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...judge from the depositions given by Haldeman and Ehrlichman in the Democratic Party's $6.4 million civil suit against C.R.P., the Watergate conspiracy was sheer confusion. Nobody was sure what he was doing or what any one else was doing before or after the breakin. Ehrlichman described an initial meeting of Mitchell, Dean, Magruder and Liddy in early 1972. An intelligence-gathering system proposed by Liddy was so "grandiose and extreme," said Ehrlichman, that it was turned down flat by the three others...
...Sears Tower has already come under attack from critics who argue that it will add to the congestion of Chicago's Loop. It has also been criticized on aesthetic grounds, and is certainly a far cry from the conventional, slick, sheer-walled slab. But S.O.M. was really following the old dictum of Louis Sullivan, one of Chicago's pioneers in skyscraper architecture, that form must follow function. By such a standard, the tower has an honesty of design that most urban buildings lack. Indeed, the tallest building in the world is perhaps a forerunner of skyscrapers with...
...other hand, as played by Gian Maria Volonte (gratefully remembered as the title character in Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion), Mattei himself emerges as a fascinating enigma-proud, driven, a masterful manipulator. His sheer energy-and his peculiar sense of realism, which appears to have been a blend of cynicism and idealism-compels attention. A pioneer conglomerator, he headed a state-owned corporation and drove himself not for money (he apparently had no life, let alone luxury, outside the office), but for power and, perhaps, for love of a game in which he delightedly cast himself in the role...
Still, the board generally agreed on the picture for the rest of 1973: sheer momentum will propel the gross national product to a new peak of roughly $1,282 billion, a gain of $130 billion from 1972. Last week boom euphoria even lifted the battered stock market; the Dow Jones industrial average leaped 29 points on Thursday, its biggest one-day jump in 21 months. The rise partly reflected news that U.S. international trade has swung back into surplus...
...rested yesterday in favor of losing pitcher Neil Goldstein, summed up his team's loss in a telephone interview last night. "They had some good hitters and we had some poor fielders. They had some good fielders and we had some bad hitters." He added, "It was by sheer luck that it was only...