Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crows see a good deal of native folk art in Japan, and sheer away from it on sight. G.I.s got a chance to inspect the same art at closer range last week when the farmers of the little village of Narita topped off a four-day summer festival with an exhibition of their best new scarecrows...
Back in 1934 James M. Cain wrote an exciting noval about passion, murder, a bum, and a girl who "really wasn't any raving beauty" but who had a sulky look to her. Now "The Postman Always Rings Twice" is here in the movies, with sheer quantity of kisses pinch-hitting for passion and Lana Turner for the sulky, Mexican-looking woman. Murder and the bum more nearly receive their due, the latter at the hands of John Garfield, but in no way does the picture generate the speed and intensity of the book...
...Reverend Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdiclc, retiring after 42 years in the ministry, 20 years as pastor of Manhattan's towering Riverside Church, looked back and peered ahead in his farewell 'sermon. "This generation is up against . . . sheer paganism . . ." he observed. "Out of Russia has come an atheistic philosophy . . . which the Christian church in these coming years will confront in head-on collision...
...years Psychiatrist Seliger has been hammering away at one basic concept: moderate drinking is impossible for an alcoholic; he can no more handle liquor than a diabetic can handle sugar. The idea that he can get away with a small glass of wine, or even a beer, is sheer folly...
...indecent to suggest that there is some sort of Malthusian justice in the millions of famine deaths checking excessive growth of population. It is true that Indians are multiplying too fast. But it is sheer perversity to expect people who cannot afford an elementary education and a handful of rice to buy contraceptives. Everywhere in the world slums breed human beings too fast, and India is one vast slum. The remedy is not to lecture the Indians . . . but to abolish the slummy conditions of life...