Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...speed we had [we] finally closed the range to 8,000 yd." The Japs, apparently thinking the entire U.S. Fleet was attacking, scattered. Captain Burke ordered a concentration on one damaged ship."Our boys were firing so fast that many collapsed from gas fumes in their turrets and from sheer exhaustion. Finally we got close enough so I knew the shells from three ships were hitting him. He was burning and exploding all over. Just as we prepared to open up with torpedoes he sank with a terrible explosion." The box score, after the fight was over: four Jap ships...
...Quebec's last election, the Liberal had a phrase for Duplessis' Union Nationale and his particular blend of corporatism, nationalism and sheer political expediency. They called it "Union Nazionale...
Wenatchee lies miles east of Seattle, past the snow-capped Cascade Mountains, whose passes are sheer rock faces and whose steep fir forests are gashed with crimson where scrub maple grows in the ravines. In these mountain passes the fall rains break and the woods are always wet. Wenatchee, 20 miles away, is a desert, valley, whose volcanic-ash topsoil was once barren of anything but scrub pine...
...gives him the nod, John L. Lewis will have won, through shrewd strategy and sheer mulishness, a resounding victory. If WLB turns him down, John Lewis will be able to point virtuously to his three heaving attempts at a settlement. And his big, meaty finger is still aimed ominously at a deadline: Oct. 31. After Oct. 31, if there is no approved miner-operator contract under which John Lewis' miners can work, the U.S. can do without coal...
...shafts of their carts dispirited. But at day's end, when a runway had been completed, a building put up or a force-landed plane fished bodily from a swamp, Americans saw the result and never lost the wonder of China's art in the use of sheer man power...