Word: sheerly
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...conflict between the McGovern campaign and blacks to whom it owes political debts is more than the product of the politics of poverty--more than an unsurprising consequence of the sheer feet that McGovern does not have they money to pay those debts off. When Louis Stokes said, "We've been screwed again," he was talking about more than money. No one ever supported George McGovern in hopes of getting rich by doing so. What Stokes was talking about is the fact that the McGovern campaign held out the promise of providing blacks with an opportunity of really getting into...
Harvard eased into its 337th Fall this week, either by the sheer momentum of time or the perserverance of its deans and administrators, or perhaps even by the grace of God. It was a curious week for those who observed the pendulum of student activism begin its wide swing in the year and a half prior to the 1968 Presidential election. Now, in another election year, they are witnessing the seeming return of that pendulum to a steady resting position. But this apparent steadiness is deceiving...
...perfect focus for the psychological concerns of Fat City. The sport's appeal to its audience consists largely in the opportunity it affords the spectator to project his own hostilities onto the aggressions of the fighters. Each contender can do what the spectator cannot: conquer his weaker opponent with sheer strength and agility in face-to-face combat before a crowd obligingly roaring its approval. It is also true that the fighters and managers use one another. Each boxer's value is proportional to the number of other boxers he can defeat. For the trainer, the fighter is an investment...
With such fixtures as Thomas, Kydes, Wilmot, Bell, Axton and Messing missing from this year's squad. Munro does indeed have some shuffling to do. In terms of sheer talent he can't hope to equal last year's team. But in terms of "rebuilding" he has enough quality material to construct a fairly comparable unit, which leaves the term "rebuilding" somewhat misleading...
...hawker's cries have changed this fall, reflecting major upheavals during the summer months--upheavals that may be traced to The Phoenix's spectacular springtime crisis, which gained prominence if for no other reason than its sheer complexity...