Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...know is I think Cliff Jolly is a shit. He, or someone destroyed a lot of things out of sheer jealousy. I mean, someone poured acid on the slides of lemur chromosome studies that BJ had done," says Spuhler...
...time Felix Frankfurter came to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1939, he had fought monopolies, defended striking workers, taught law at Harvard University, and written frequently for the New Republic. So maybe it was sheer momentum that kept him dabbling in public affairs from the bench. He remained one of Roosevelt's closest policy advisers, even though doing so offended the monastic ideal that judges must be "less worldly than others in order to be more judicial" -- as Frankfurter once...
...offers have been spurned by the National Democratic Front, the Communist-dominated alliance that bargains on behalf of the insurgents. The peace bids, scoffs N.D.F. Negotiator Antonio Zumel, are part of the Aquino administration's "soft tactics to countervail its naked sword of war. It is a sheer farce." Says Vicvic Justiniani, the national spokeswoman for MAKIBAKA, a women's organization that is part of the N.D.F.: "Our view of what constitutes peace is not the same as Cory's. Peace can only come with social justice. So it is a question of whose ideas prevail, ours or hers...
...presumed lost, and Cole Porter's Gay Divorce. Later I opened an envelope with Porter's name on it and found songs by him I didn't even know had existed." Further burrowing yielded the Holy Grail of show-tune scholarship: more than 175 unpublished Kern songs. "In sheer numbers and quality it's extraordinary," says H. Wiley Hitchcock, a Brooklyn College musicologist. "It's like finding Leonardo's original sketchbooks...
...THIS WAS SHEER marketing genius--why should the rich waste their money on charity for a mere plaque when for the same money Harvard will build and name a permanent structure on their historic campus in their honor? In Harvard's policy of naming property after whomever will pay, the rich have found the perfect arena to maintain their inflated egos, and we at Harvard have found a great way to fleece them...