Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stop circus, with its even more bizarre array of characters and sideshows, continued until we graduated, accelerating in madness with the invasion of Cambodia and the killings at Kent State. By June 1971, we were exhausted by the sheer intensity of our rage, and so was Pusey, whose premature retirement began at our commencement...
...sheer drama few novelists would dare invent the stories of these correspondents: Cecil Brown (one of the long-forgotten Murrow boys) plunging off a sinking ship into the South China Sea; Eric Sevareid parachuting out of a doomed plane over the Himalayas and being rescued by a tribe of headhunters; William L. Shirer risking imprisonment by providing the first accounts of France's capitulation to Hitler; Charles Collingwood, the high-living, womanizing dandy, demonstrating incredible courage during the North Africa campaign. Dominating the story from London is Murrow himself, bringing the Battle of Britain and the Blitz back...
...sheer force of personality, Deutch has become the most well-connected spymaster since Allen Dulles ran the CIA for Dwight Eisenhower (Dulles' brother John Foster Dulles was Secretary of State). Deutch is also well on his way to becoming even more powerful than Ronald Reagan's notoriously influential spy chief, Bill Casey, who was the first director to hold Cabinet rank. When Deutch appeared reluctant to quit as Deputy Defense Secretary for the CIA job, Clinton dialed up the pressure by again upgrading it to a Cabinet post. Unlike Casey, Deutch ostensibly refrains from advocating policy with the President, only...
...first Jackie has, and deserves, a place in the history of American heroism. For on a dark, cold weekend of a November long ago, when everyone felt stunned and saddened, she redeemed a tragedy, gave it a kind of meaning, by the sheer force of her presence and the size of her will. And she did it at age 34, after her husband's head had been exploded...
...waffling, delays and sheer resistance to the offering of more courses--not a department, not a concentration, just more courses--in the field of race and ethnic studies...