Word: sheerly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Israeli approach has discouraged terrorists. Tel Aviv's uncompromising stance did not dissuade a Palestinian guerrilla team from seizing a Sabena jet with 90 passengers at Tel Aviv's Lod International Airport last May and trying to bargain for the release of 117 imprisoned fedayeen. It was sheer luck that only one passenger was killed when Israeli security men stormed into the plane with guns blazing to end the extortion attempt. Three weeks later, a trio of machine-gun toting Japanese radicals working for the fedayeen killed 26 tourists and wounded 85 inside Lod International Airport...
...their time, army colonels in South Viet Nam operated a string of civilian enterprises that included banking, construction and transportation, until a government crackdown earlier this year forced them out of business (TIME, April 3). The military in Indonesia owns a domestic airline, Mandala, bus services and banks. For sheer scope, drive and staying power, however, the business offensive of Turkey's army is in a class by itself. Turkish military chiefs openly and aggressively run what amounts to the country's biggest and most pervasive conglomerate...
Then why does the custom of August vacations persist? Partly it is sheer habit, but partly also the crush begins with the large industries, whose managers claim that only by shutting down altogether can major maintenance be done and everyone be given a holiday without an unacceptable slowdown of the assembly lines. After the factories close, a whole chain of related businesses follows suit. Then the food, clothing and other industries schedule their vacations for the "dead" period. Even so, Europeans seem in no hurry to change. When Italian workers were recently polled on their vacation preferences, almost 80% said...
...seen since the days of the late Wanda Landowska and Albert Schweitzer. Like Landowska, he plays with enormous verve and intense rhythm, sprinkling musical embellishments like roman candles being tossed from an express train. This startles those who learned their Bach straight, but Newman conquers the doubters with sheer personal conviction. There is something reminiscent of Schweitzer in the way Newman's intellectual and religious philosophy, Zen, permeates his music making and mesmerizes his youthful audiences. Even on the shrill organ at Philharmonic Hall, which at top volume sounds for all the world like a herd of angry Buicks...
...vote is an expression of a renewed ethnic consciousness, a defense erected against forces that appear to be menacing. Crime, in particular, has disrupted Jewish life in the cities, where most Jews continue to live. When they demand law and order, they are not speaking in code but citing sheer need. Always sensitive to outside slights and attacks, Jews are now more vehement in their own defense. As White House Aide Pat Buchanan rather bluntly put it: "The Jews have started to react to social engineering the way other ethnics have. They're protective of their turf...