Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...14th week of the war against the Fascists, the nation was in great peril. Even if the Red defenses could by sheer will power hurl back the enemy, Russia would have to start building all over again. And if the defenses failed, then there was nothing to look forward to but a world beyond imagining, in which a face was not even a face unless it was German...
...believe that the influence of the Faculty is "out of sheer black malice," nor are we unconscious of the fact that the war has brought some changes. But we feel, sadly enough, the anachronistic truth of Ben Franklin's accusations. Harvard is still a temple where most of the worshippers "contented themselves to sit at the foot with Madam Idleness and her maid Ignorance," and learn "little more than how to carry themselves handsomely and enter a room genteelly...
...these first few days. Beware of these men, says the Progressive, in sobering tones. You may believe at first that they are guiding you along the true path of knowledge. But unless you are very careful, you will realize only too late that they have cleverly contrived, out of sheer black malice, to lead you astray: Beware. For a Freshman who has just got back his first English A theme, covered with comments more pungent than insidious; and pointed up with a large red "D," this admonition can have little meaning. For a man fresh out of a midwestern high...
Gentle, grey-maned Senator Walter F. George was beaming. By sheer charm and persuasion he had talked the committee into dropping a $22,600,000 House-approved levy on soft drinks-a hard blow, had it passed, for the State of Georgia, home of Chairman George and Coca-Cola. Other changes: > Income-tax exemptions were lowered to $750 for single taxpayers, $1,500 for married couples, creating some 2,272,000 new taxpayers. But of the estimated $305,000,000 from lower exemptions, they will pay only about...
Invective. Between such bits the Prime Minister tucked in not only an account of U.S. relations with Japan and what he and the President meant by their eight points, but for sheer joy of it he tore Hitler to pieces...