Word: sheerly
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...this prosperity is the government's doing. The rise in food production is primarily the result of sheer luck: two seasons in a row of magnificent monsoons. At least part of the gains can be attributed to draconian but pragmatic policies that Mrs. Gandhi adopted while democratic liberties were suspended. The state of emergency was indeed partly proclaimed because opponents would not let the Prime Minister forget that her 1971 election slogan-AN END TO POVERTY-had been turned into a mockery by the war with Pakistan, the absorption of 10 million refugees from Bangladesh, two successive drought years...
Tolstoy's Anna Karenina is "sheer nonsense," opined Author Rebecca West. For one thing, young girls in love do not go to their first balls in a "state of lust" like hussars, she argued. The occasion: a 75th anniversary poll by London's Times Literary Supplement of 43 writers, artists and scholars who were asked to name the 20th century authors or books they consider the most overrated-or underrated. Arnold Toynbee and E.M. Forster, it seems, have the most inflated reputations. In addition to Forster, Anthony Burgess cited Andre Gide and Hermann Hesse. J.K. Galbraith called Ring...
Carter may be more the result of a changing national mood than the leader of it. The kids who swarmed over the Washington Mall a few years ago, protesting war and racial discrimination, brought part of the message. So did Gerald Ford, the Grand Rapids Eagle Scout who by sheer decency glued a shattered people back to stability...
...housing controversy is but the latest link in a long chain of affronteries to the democratic process at Harvard. The odyssey of the Afro-American Studies Department, won by the sheer guts and conviction of students in the late 1960s, and castrated by the administration's patient patronizing and violent hatchetwaving; the insulting neglect with which the University has treated the widespread demand for Women's Studies; the even more outrageous impositions made on workers by Harvard as an employer, going to the point of actively participating in efforts to emasculate the national Affirmative Action program, even failing to comply...
...year or more, not only because they are undergoing extensive skin grafts but because portions of the body may have to be entirely reconstructed. In fact, says Brooke's Colonel Basil A. Pruitt, the army's top burn expert, the plastic surgery in some cases is sheer artistry...