Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sheer repetition he was effective. Toward week's end columns of smoke rising from Cavite told Manilans that the base's supplies were being destroyed-whether by the Jap or by their defenders, they could not tell. Cavite, once a powerful secondary Naval base, was all but out of action, could not be used in any event until the Jap was curbed...
...finish the faces in his figures, leaves them eyelessly blank. But the people in Surgeon Souchon's paintings need faces no more than a poem needs footnotes. Effusive and bubbling as Oldster Souchon himself, they make their point not by depicting anything in particular, but by the sheer joyousness of their color. Says Dr. Souchon: "I like my pictures red hot. The only trouble with color is that...
...skill of maneuver and tactics that Britain was winning, however. It was by sheer doggedness. Every inch was fought for, and losses of both sides were high in proportion to the value of the ground...
...United States are fighting side by side with Stalin, the greatest murderer of men the world has ever known . . . the man who murdered the old Bolsheviki, the slayer of millions of his own people, the man who in sheer savagery grinned while 3,000,000 people were dying in the Ukraine for lack of food which he had taken from their mouths...
...sheer racket the shipyards of 1918 were rivaled only by the Western Front, for into every 10,000-ton freighter were battered over a half-million rivets. In many modern ships nearly all these rivets have been eliminated. Result is that shipyards today are much quieter, and to gapers outside their guarded walls the chief evidence of activity within is the firefly flashing of arc welders clambering among the hulls...