Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Peleliu is incomparably worse than Guam in its bloodiness, terror, climate and the incomprehensible tenacity of the Japs. For sheer brutality and fatigue, I think it surpasses anything yet seen in the Pacific, certainly from the standpoint of numbers of troops involved and the time taken to make the island secure...
...shoes was engulfing. In one place the sheer weight had broken the wall. Part of the wall had fallen out, and with it a cascade of shoes. Kudriavtsev said: "There are 820,000 pairs here and 18 carloads of the best were shipped to Germany. You will see the receipts at the Gestapo warehouse...
...Their lines were jammed with a record freight and passenger traffic. Union Pacific's president, big Bill Jeffers, took time out to roar that Berge was suffering from "Potomac fever." Joseph Hays, counsel for the W.A.R.E., said: "Mr. Biddle knows that if his charges were anything more than sheer demagoguery he could take the complaint to the ICC for speedy redress." Hays argued that Attorney General Biddle should have included ICC among the culprits, since all freight rates must be cleared through ICC. Others felt that the U.S. Ambassador to Russia, W. Averell Harriman, should have been among those...
...also true that whoever dominated China dominated Asia. The problem was even vaster. For if the Chinese Communist state-within-a-state should ever dominate China, the combination of a Communist China's 450,000,000 people and Communist Russia's 190,000,000 people might by sheer numbers and economic resources dominate the world...
Trumpeted Maryland's Millard Tydings: "Continuing the spending of money we haven't got is sheer demagoguery...