Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While Kopit says he recognizes the advantages of the Loeb, and welcomes its presence, he remains grateful that, 25 years ago, "we had to do it all. There was freedom to fail. The sheer pleasure of working in Harvard theater has rarely been matched...
...will mutate next fall into a new show, Three's a Crowd, in which Star John Ritter acquires a new girlfriend with a cantankerous father. Only The Jeffersons (ten seasons on the air) and Alice (eight seasons) remain, and they seem to be running on sheer inertia...
...They will remember exactly the spot where they were pinned down by German machine guns, or where a shell blast sent a truck pinwheeling. They will go up again to Pointe du Hoc and shake their heads again in wonder at the men who climbed that sheer cliff while Germans fired down straight into their faces. The veterans will take photographs. But the more vivid pictures will be those fixed in their minds, the ragged, brutal images etched there on the day when they undertook to save European civilization...
...become a living museum stretching 60 miles along the length of the invasion beaches. Last year about 1.5 million visitors, almost half of them Americans, stopped to gaze at the 172-acre U.S. cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer, where 9,386 soldiers are buried beneath an immaculate lawn. The sheer multitude of white crosses and Stars of David, arranged in neat rows that undulate over the green expanse, forces a hushed reverence, even on buses filled with students born long after the event. Caen Mayor Jean-Marie Girault points out that a high proportion of the people who come...
...Viet Nam. Ever since 1979, when hundreds of thousands of Chinese troops rushed across the frontier, low-level skirmishes between the Communist adversaries have been a springtime ritual. Although wildly conflicting reports from Hanoi and Peking have obscured the real extent of this year's fighting, the sheer volume of the competing claims and counterclaims appears to confirm that the situation has seriously deteriorated. Only last week, the Vietnamese claimed they had killed or wounded hundreds of Chinese troops in the border province of Ha Tuyen...