Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been an active participant in the discussions. He has felt free to offer suggestions as they seem to be appropriate." The style and tempo of the summit, in fact, recalled Carter's long pursuit of the presidency: a stubborn, dogged approach to tough issues and an assumption that sheer strength and determination must eventually triumph...
...Sheer nonsense," retorted Martin to speculation that he was preparing a defense. Last week from the Winston-Salem hospital bed where he is recovering from surgery for lung cancer, Martin also maintained that keeping the papers secret is no longer required by national security. "Viet Nam is over," he said. "There is nothing that could possibly hurt the security of the United States. Here is a personal, single collection of communications dating back to the days of Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge. They would be of value to future historians...
...recognition washes over the opening bars of each number; singing to a shouted obbligato of "You said it, Willie! Sing it!"; swigging a beer between phrases or cheerfully knocking back the shots of booze passed up to him from the audience; remaining unperturbed even when a burly fan in sheer exuberance hurls a table onto the bandstand-bottles, glasses...
...which underscores the power and versatility that the Sisters gain from sheer size. Different though they are, they all-again like real sisters-show a strong family resemblance. They are all vertically integrated companies controlling the flow of oil from well through pipeline and refinery to gasoline pump. All are multinationals; Shell operates in well over 100 countries, Exxon nearly as many...
Often the answers to such questions have remained locked in mystery, protected by the wall of secrecy that attends the conclave, the vows of silence taken by the Cardinals as they enter and are sealed from the outside world. But after this conclave-perhaps out of sheer exuberance over the results-a number of participants proved talkative, and TIME'S Jordan Bonfante and Roland Flamini have pieced together much of the story of the proceedings in the Sistine Chapel. It is clear that Luciani came to power through no accident, but as a result of a spontaneous consensus that...