Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...outside, Jerry Voorhis, who stuck doggedly to his membership until 1943 continually banged away at excesses in the committee. When chief investigator J.B. Matthews charged that Communists were using consumers' organizations in an effort to destroy the venerable American institution of advertising, Voorhis promptly tagged the report as sheer opinion. It turned out that Matthews was carrying a personal grudge against certain consumers' groups, and was strangely short on facts to support his statements...
...Saturday the Crimson played its greatest game since 1941. At any time the outcome could have been reversed, through the sheer courage of Harvard's play. Even after Army pulled two touchdowns ahead in the third period the tired team continued to tight bitterly until the final whistle...
Then Choo Choo Charlie went to town. He set up a touchdown with a series of bullet passes, and lugged the ball around right end for the score. He plowed through the middle for 14 yards and another touchdown. He relied on cutbacks and shiftiness rather than sheer speed. Said one blocker: "It's easy to block for Charlie, because he sets up the blocks." Choo Choo had an uncanny photographic eye that enabled him to get a quick picture of a broken field defense. He accounted for Carolina's third and game-winning touchdown by taking...
...exhibit worth it? To make sure that it would be, Pepsi had screened the 156 final canvases through six juries of artists and museum men (Exhibit Director Roland McKinney served on all six). The resulting show, which ran the gamut from naturalism to sheer abstraction, contained very few duds. It proved again the energy, variety and competence of a number of U.S. painters, known and unknown, doing their work in all parts of the country. Among the standouts...
...revival produces few of the well-remembered howls and wonderful aching bellylaughs. Never anything more than sheer slapstick with all the attendent pratfalls, squashed toppers, and skinned knees, "Bringing Up Baby" lacks the necessary speed of action and the vital, high caliber gags to carry it over the inevitable slow spots. It bogs and badly after starting off at a tremendous clip. The middle reels, where any normally intelligent gagman would be clearing the decks for a final smashing boffola, are gummed up by a miserably dull jail routine that talks the audience straight into dreamland. And they sleep right...