Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Such doomsday language invariably crops up in discussions about Ulster's future. But the end may not be quite so grim. Sheer battle fatigue may give Northern Ireland the respite it needs...
...fairly strong language. During the second World War we took a strong democratic stand in our country. There were open debates. During a dark period, we had to let through some trains with people [Germans] going on leave from Norway. But that we cooperated with the Nazis is sheer nonsense...
...curiosities are included: the presence- fleeting, alas-of an agonizingly unfunny comedian named Jackie Kahane; a fast, amusing montage of clinches from old Elvis pictures, featuring the star leering and nuzzling a variety of pneumatic starlets; and a close look, offstage and on, at the Presley wardrobe, which for sheer flamboyance probably has not been matched since the days of Marie Antoinette...
...very foolish, fond old movie. Written by an aging Graham Greene and directed by an aged George Kukor, it is altogether an old man's work--an embrace of a glamorous era long dead, a last grand grinning caper through it. Whether it lays claims to any purpose beyond sheer diversion is a mystery, and Greene's novel lacks a clue...
...Crimson on his desk, with an editorial marked: each time the editorial made suggestions for bettering administrative methods, and each time the suggestion was complied with. I saw the editorials of the Crimson voicing the growing movement for reform in intercollegiate athletics pounding their way, day after day, by sheer sanity and force, into the public opinion of the college, both faculty and students...