Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months ago, backed by a tremendous force of carriers and escorting warships, Turner invaded the Gilberts. The Tarawa landing was the most ferocious battle yet fought in the Pacific. In the end, sheer weight and the Marines prevailed. "Impregnable" Tarawa was secured in four days...
Cope's proposed solution: Englishmen should agree to form a republic, Afrikanders should accept it and agree to stay within the British Commonwealth. Anti-British Afrikanders, who outnumber and might outvote the English, were delighted. The English press was hostile. ("Sheer folly," grunted the Johannesburg Rand Daily Mail...
...Saroyan with a thesis of Love with a capital, philosophical L in a new form, and a far more successful one than that of his recent "Go Away, Old Man," which closed after 13 performances on Broadway earlier this season. Bill's ranting at Hollywood lost effect through sheer over broadness and repetition in that play; here, he strikes at the army and war with something that can best he described as gentleness (!) but with a result comparable to a good termite job: It doesn't scream out at you, but it's inexorably effective...
Other echoes rumbled all along the front. In the Dnieper bulge, great tank battles flared up and died down of sheer exhaustion. In the windswept plain west of Kiev, in the woods north of the frozen Pripet Marshes, the front stirred, thundered, quieted. Fearfully, Germans spoke of Russian troops massed thickly along the 300-mile front south of Leningrad...
...sheer weight of the names on the marquee is enough to sweep you into Keith's Memorial this week. And the movie endeavours mightily to give you your money's worth by presenting three tales of the supernatural against a very agreeable background of Benchley...