Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...terrified survivors streamed into suburban parks and the surrounding countryside in fear of further tremors. An employee at the Austrian embassy in Bucharest reported that there were "rifts and holes more than a meter wide in other houses. Heaps of rubbish lay in the streets. It was sheer madness...
...grass behind you might be an Amin man. Whenever you hear a car speeding down the street, you think it might suddenly come to a stop-for you. I finally fled, not because I was in trouble or because of anything I did, but out of sheer fear. People disappear. When they disappear, it means they are dead...
...certain neighboring Bantu languages, for instance, are distinguished by being the only languages in the world with a set of clicks in their phonetic repertoire. The Bantu languages all have vast noun classes and though found in some other places in the world (e.g. Fiji), they cannot approach the sheer number of classes that are found in these. Many African languages are believed to have a system of tones, as in Chinese; here the intonation of the voice can be an integral part of the word, and a word spoken with a different tone can have a different meaning. Many...
...sheer quantity of reporting in Convention reminds one of Henry Fairlie commenting on John Toland's voluminous biography of Hitler. Toland claimed to have talked with new sources, including Hitler's sister. Fairlie said he thought of the time he and friends went to taste what were billed as the lesser known wines of Burgundy. Fairlie said at the end of the evening that he could see why they were the lesser-known wines of Burgundy--implying that maybe the reason nobody had talked to Hitler's sister was that she had nothing to say. But the final word...
Because the Crimson women were determined to upset the undefeated Seagles, they wanted every possible factor in their favor: thus the sheer suits...