Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sickened with malaria, scurvy, dysentery, collapsed from hunger and sheer fatigue. Food and ammunition had to be carried to them by air. The ghostly jungles closed around them. Snipers potted them and fanatical Japs jumped them from trees. Corpses of haggard-faced, bearded U.S. soldiers bobbed in the flooded rivers. Officers as well as men dropped like flies. Brigadier General Hanford MacNider was wounded. Entrenched on high, dry ground around Buna, the Japs held...
Salvador Dali showed the world his conception of syphilis last week. For sheer sensation, the serpentine horror painted by the showmanly Spaniard easily ran away with the honors at a Manhattan exhibition of 24 health posters, intended for postwar Europe...
...significant was the Congress' willingness to waive a sacred trade-union right: German forced labor should be used for the rebuilding of Nazi-devastated Europe. So far, only Russia has announced its intention to use German forced labor. Exclaimed excitable Will Lawther, Mineworkers' Federation president: "It is sheer humbug ... to hail the Red Army in one breath, but in the other to say 'to hell with you' when it comes to footing the bill...
...sheer voluptuousness, the book's heroine, honey-haired Courtesan Amber St. Clare makes Scarlett O'Hara look like a schoolmarm-a fact that could scarcely escape Hollywood's attention any more than Macmillan's. On the plausible assumption that Forever Amber might be its biggest smash hit since Gone With the Wind, the shrewd house of Macmillan spent a small fortune ($20,000) on advance publicity, and were set to saturate the nation's bookshops with 225,000 advance copies. It was a good bet that before the month was out Amber would be boiling...
...Last week General Charles de Gaulle's Government set Feb. 1 for its first elections, for local offices only. Frenchmen thought it sheer optimism to expect some 2,000,000 deportees and prisoners home from Germany so soon...