Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...doubt that during the Korean War, administration distrust was essentially a manifestation of anti-Communist sentiment. This feeling was sufficiently strong to render any government action suspect. In the case of Vietnam, however, the anti-Communist component appears negligible; the credibility gap controversy seems to be a product of sheer indignation on the part of the public, without any ideological underpinnings...
...large unions. Today the 100 biggest industrial corporations control about half the nation's corporate manufacturing assets, an even greater percentage than the 200 largest companies controlled 20 years ago. These corporations may be beneficent and efficient, though smaller firms are often better in both categories. The sheer size of the giants, however, hampers new entrepreneurs from entering some industries and expanding in others. A handful of companies dominate auto, aerospace, steel, aluminum and computer manufacturing so thoroughly that new companies find it nearly impossible to break in. If the U.S. wants to expand free enterprise in these...
...sticky business increases fourfold. Angry viewers write angry letters to bemused editors. Critics swoon in admiration or bellow in rage. Admittedly, A Clockwork Orange is at times a black and raw film; it has pushed violence about as far as is imaginable. But this still can't explain the sheer depth of resentment it has provoked...
...almost all of the section's delegates easily. Maine will of course come out solidly for the native son. Vermont and Rhode Island also will support the Muskie nomination. The psychologically important primary in New Hampshire on March 7 is already crowded with candidates, and their sheer number will probably reduce Muskie's winning margin to about 55% of the total vote...
...liners. His gift is for dialect and narrative, not gags. The laugh track of a Bob Hope or a Milton Berle is a crescendo to climactic punch lines. Flip's graph would be all hills and valleys, zigs and zags. He puts his material over gently, through sheer likability-and considerable body English. Though only 5 ft. 6 in., he has an amazingly elastic physical grace, and a repertory of motions that recalls the masters of silent movie comedy...