Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...promoting new blood, stressing his own passion for work, unity, detailed organization, action along planned lines. His strategy was plain. He might not be able to excel Quarterback Roosevelt in gay improvisation, tricky forward passes and dazzling end runs, but Tom Dewey was going to try to win by sheer hard work, detailed planning, and power plays...
This and other such heavy bombings were notice that the Allies take seriously the Nazi promise of a new civilian terror weapon. British censors let pass a commentator's statement that Paul Joseph Goebbels' ecstatic threats about new weapons "may not be sheer propaganda...
...island (of whom we had interned 10,000) were killing themselves. I headed for the northern tip of Saipan, a place called Marpi Point, where there is a long plateau on which the Japs had built a secondary airfield. At the edge of the plateau there is a sheer 200-ft. drop to jagged coral below; then the billowing sea. The morning I crossed the airfield and got to the edge of the cliff nine marines from a burial detail were working with ropes to pick up the bodies of two of our men, killed the previous day. I asked...
...play itself is very comically constructed, and though the tendency of the players is towards farce in places, the sheer funniness of the lines themselves refuses to be obscured. A variety of Russian acconts further complicate the proceedings and tend to bewilder both the audience and the players. Handsomely set in another of Andrew Mack's distinctive settings, however, the production shows some amazingly fine acting from some of the Jesser characters in the play...
...Some listeners' sales resistance collapsed from sheer exhaustion. Explained one: "She was getting you so on it, I couldn't stand it no more. I said, 'Dammit, I'm going to telephone right in and that is the end of it. I'm going to bed and forget about it.' My husband said to me, 'You are not going to go to bed until you get on that damn phone and give the bond...