Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sheer Merit. Ali, as it turned out, knew better than a lot of insiders. A week before the awards ceremony, she and Bob and another couple had written down their predictions and sealed them in envelopes, with a bottle of champagne to go to the winner of their contest. Ali missed only one of the eight major awards: she picked Karen Black (Five Easy Pieces) as best supporting actress instead of Winner Helen Hayes (Airport). Otherwise, though, Mrs. Evans was as prescient as could be: she correctly named Patton for best picture, best direction (Franklin J. Schaffner), best actor (George...
...member of the cast is Montague Gammon as Clov. In general his Clov expresses only a whining weariness with everything about his life. However (and here again is the difficulty with acting Beckett) whining weariness can grate on an audience unless it manages to be expressive of meaning beyond sheer weariness. Gammon is not quite able to convey this, and as a result his characterization occasionally becomes tiresome...
Chicago is multiple dwellings, and the proportion rises as high as 90% in such suburbs as Oak Park. At the core of the problem is sheer population pressure. "It's more crowded here now," says Joseph McCarthy, 36, a Grumman Corp. engineer who lives in East Northport, L.I. "A few years back it was almost a rural area. Now you have traffic to contend with that you never had to worry about before...
...unlike Cornell, the other team to take the Crimson by more than a one goal margin, B. U, did not need to rely on sheer adrenaline to beat Harvard. Cornell cutskated the Crimson, using its speed and endurance to out-backcheck and out-cover Harvard. B. U. simply outplayed the Crimson, stick-handling and passing better than a team with great play-making ability and finesse...
...year of co-ed (I use the term cautiously) living hardly changes the fact that the entire Harvard community is and has been a male-dominated society since 1636-sheer numbers of male faculty members, teaching fellows, and students prove my point...