Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wooden coasters has a distinct personality. The Texas Cyclone at Houston's Astroworld is patterned on the Coney Island Cyclone. "It's just a little bigger and a little faster- Texas style," says a proud park official. But it retains the original Cyclone's sheer drops: the first of them, a devastating 53° plunge, bottoms out 92 ft. below the crest. Riders have lost wigs and false teeth in the 60-m.p.h. near freefall. St. Louis' Six Flags boasts the Screamin' Eagle; No. 1 in the Guinness Book of World Records...
...tell these workers that they are foreigners, living in black gulags, and can express their political voice only in distant homelands is sheer fantasy...
Ironically, the IBM case would not have been possible before the advent of the computer. The sheer numbers involved are staggering. IBM supplied an estimated 60 million pages of documents and other computer concerns provided 115 million more. The courtroom has now seen 4 million of those pages, through 50 witnesses and about 4,000 exhibits and 50,000 stenographic transcript pages of testimony; IBM has listed 350 additional witnesses for future swearing...
With The Importance of Being Ear nest Wilde raises frivolity to high fash ion, attains a comic nirvana through sheer nonsense. Apart from a wonderfully sly-tongued cast, which this production has, the play demands a director who can crack the combination of its elegant wit and satirical wisdom with the silky fingers of a safe robber. Stephen Porter is just that sort of director, and the stamp of his assurance is his total trust in the playwright...
...task force's report has been delayed because of the sheer complexity of its task. It must determine the fairest balance of money and personnel within the Faculty, and so must first disentangle the conflicting and interwoven interests involved...