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Word: sheerly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...knows exactly who she is and what she wants. And she breezes through every scene, tossing out off-the-cuff, sardonic zingers with a grace one doesn't often see in today's movies. Sedgwick is no abrasive Roseanne Barr type--she is utterly feminine in short skirts and sheer hose, even as she knees Quaid in the groin and announces, "Well I feel better...

Author: By Alison D. Overholt, | Title: Sedgwick, Not Roberts, Will Give Audiences 'Something to Talk About' | 8/8/1995 | See Source »

...Karen [Samuelson, one of the students,] was really enthralled by the neurosurgery. She was very taken ,aback by it, just for the sheer excitement ofit, and actually viewing a human brain and seeingthe process unfold before her eyes," he said...

Author: By Alison D. Overholt, | Title: Six Native Americans In HMS Program | 8/8/1995 | See Source »

STEPHEN HAWKING, proving (once more) that a debilitating motor neuron disease is no match for sheer will, plans to marry again, according to the London Telegraph. His bride will be his erstwhile nurse--once married to the designer of his voice synthesizer. Hawking divorced his first wife in 1991 after 26 years of marriage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 17, 1995 | 7/17/1995 | See Source »

Since the end of the Cold War, international terrorism has shifted from acts of sheer violence to economic warfare, the president of the American International Security Corporation said last night...

Author: By Valerie J. Macmillan, | Title: Terrorism's Evolution Subject of IOP Lecture | 7/14/1995 | See Source »

...answer to that question lies in whether white representatives can effectively represent Black constituents. To say, as some Blacks do, that whites cannot represent Blacks in Congress is sheer folly. Maybe they don't represent Blacks as well as other Blacks do, but to say that all Blacks share common interests is also flawed. Thus, there is no one Black interest that only a Black legislator can represent...

Author: By Douglas M. Pravda, | Title: Redistricting Without Regard to Race | 7/7/1995 | See Source »

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