Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...city editor. Bing's recollection of his staff: "I do not suppose in the history of journalism there was ever such a bunch of misfits, crackpots and incompetents ... in one newspaper office . . ." The feeling, as Bingay tells it now, was obviously mutual. Reporters passed up stories for the sheer pleasure of seeing the boy wonder scooped...
Armstrong bowled them over in Chicago. His tone was unsurpassed for purity -and stayed that way even up around F and G above high C; he had such sheer power that he could blow as many as 300 ceiling notes in succession. The songs that came from his shiny horn ranged from the most mournful of blues to the explosive abandon of numbers like Muskrat Ramble...
...days (see FOREIGN NEWS). In Manhattan, eleven cocky Communists, also accused of conspiring against their own country, were in their fourth week of pretrial maneuvering, and a jury had not even been chosen. All the privileges of U.S. justice, including the opportunity of delay .and the doubtful right of sheer dallying with the court, was being given to them in its fullest measure...
What redeems these diaries from sheer morbidness is Kafka's herculean determination to find health and purpose in his writing. Even when he thought of suicide, he drove himself to his desk. Writing "is my struggle for self-preservation ... Go on working regardless of everything." He went on working...
JOEL ROME '51 brandishes a woman's leg. The stocking is of sheer silk and medium length, size nine. The leg lost Rome during the Dartmouth game and just got back...