Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...them want to grab the nearest racket and rush to the court. It is the pictures that do it. Whether they show Rod Laver smashing a serve, Stan Smith straining for a backhand drive, or Billie Jean King pulverizing a forehand volley, the photographs communicate the power, grace and sheer ferocity of top-level tennis, in kinetic color and black and white. The supporting text is heavy with cliches (legends are always "untarnished") as it sketchily covers the history, the famous matches and shotmakers of the game. No matter. Most tennis fans are used to the vagaries of mixed doubles...
...many Harvard and Radcliffe students customarily remain in their suites for large portions of the holiday. Some students have no choice but to do so, others prefer to remain for compelling educational reasons. Nor does Mr. Hall appreciate the enormous potential for loss of property, administrative confusion, and sheer hopeless bustle that his proposal to move all remaining students into one house would create...
French Pride. Europeans feel that detente between Moscow and Washington is a diplomatic way to describe a situation where two states are drawn together by the sheer power they exercise, and their ability to exclude others. They are unhappy with Kissinger's brutal but accurate description of Europe as a minor power with regional interests, while the U.S. is a power with global interests. They are no longer sure of their individual relationships with the U.S., and because of this they are backing into more dependence on each other...
...catch-the-criminal so overwhelmingly the name of the game on TV? It makes for sheer escapist fantasy, of course. It also caters to the immemorial fascination with a puzzle, something which has enthralled and tantalized generations of mystery addicts. On a deeper level, however, TV's idealized cops, lawyers and shamuses may satisfy a yearning for a more ordered world-a world where pure good triumphs over pure evil, where justice is just, where the System works...
...lengthy, un interrupted triptych), the frustrated boys get spiky-tempered, vicious and ugly. They thwack the girls unmercifully with a beach ball and shove them sprawling into the sand. One of the boys delivers a monologue on what he once found in a girls' John, which for sheer nauseated revulsion at woman as a menstruating animal is in direct descent from the diatribes of the early Christian fathers. Bruised and crying, the girls are lugged offstage like cavemen's trophies...