Word: sheerness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...announced that it was going to win not only acquittal but vindication in the trial. But Stryker sounded like a man trying not so much to vindicate his client as to get him off. He fled from accusing facts, or brushed them off with a sneer. Seemingly counting on sheer noise to drown out doubts, he assaulted the jury with windblown oratory...
...with the artillery of the 4th Regular Army Division, and it was during this service that he saw and was so deeply impressed with the beautiful city of Rothenburg. What McCloy did not know in April 1945 was that it was his same old outfit, by sheer coincidence, that was preparing to capture Rothenburg from the Germans-by destruction if necessary...
Caplin & Squid. The newly formed Sight-Seeing Tours Co. runs trips to Newfoundland's characteristic fishing villages -clusters of houses and sheds clinging to sheer cliffs. Harvey & Co. Ltd. has a tour that takes in coves where, in summer, shoals of the glistening caplin strike, and where dorymen with multi-hooked jiggers catch squid for bait for the Grand Banks fishing fleet. At tour's end, 40 miles from St. John's, is trim little Cupids, the beauty spot picked by John Guy in 1610 for the first permanent colony...
Surprise Witness. Murphy politely refused the bait-he wanted to impress the jury, through sheer boredom if necessary, of the size and the import of the material which Chambers said he had received from Hiss, the onetime State Department bright young man, for transmission to Soviet Russia. He kept at his slow task for two days, while Stryker paced the corridor outside, clutching a chewed cigar and frowning with impatience...
That was how the New York Sun described the Black Tom explosion of July 30, 1916. The Literary Digest scoffed at reports that German saboteurs had blown up the Black Tom pier to prevent munitions shipments to the Allies; it said that such rumors "died of sheer inanition almost as soon as born...