Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...radio net that Mickey dominates by sheer voice power is an entirely new web thrown over the superlative Chinese A.R.P. net in the last eight months. Never in the past four years has an undetected Jap raider slipped through that net into the hinterland. The Chinese posts are usually far away in hills, jungles and valleys. One man pumps current for the radio with his legs, another reports what the Japs are doing...
...raging crankiness of a Browning monologue: "You have let a soul slip through your fingers. . . . The more one thinks about it, the worse it becomes. He got through so easily! No gradual misgivings, no doctor's sentence, no nursing home, no operating theater, no false hopes of life; sheer, instantaneous liberation. One moment it seemed to be all our world; the scream of bombs, the fall of houses ... the heart cold with horrors, the brain reeling, the legs aching; next moment all this was gone, gone like a bad dream, never again to be of any account...
...unattainable unless it is buttressed by the military power of Russia. . . . To suppose that Britain and the U.S. with the aid of some lesser European powers could maintain permanent security in Europe through a policy which alienated Russia and induced her to disinterest herself in Continental affairs would be sheer madness." This conception was a slap at the reported desire of the Vatican and of some circles in Washington to establish a buffer of anti-Russian states in Eastern Europe...
...sheer force of his tone. Pete Brown got even more applause, though he often overworked his ideas, which were none too prolific. He did play better than any time I'd caught him at the Ken, and his tone is as amazing as ever...
Free speech sometimes turns into sheer loudmouthing. Last week Blue Network President Mark Woods clamped down on two of his rowdiest commentators, Walter Winchell and Drew Pearson, told them to stop making derogatory or insulting remarks about public officials, especially members of Congress. When Blue news editors blue-penciled some of his "controversial" items, Winchell yelled: "My fangs have been removed...