Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sheer Excitement...
Progress will come in still another vein. This concerns the sheer excitement and drama of broadcasting to such a large potential audience. Andrew feels this should help keep standards and morale high among the station's staff...
...would back up their theory. But the Israeli army was in no mood to wait for the archaeologist's word. Last week a jeep-borne band of soldiers barreled down from their base in the Sinai peninsula to Jebel Musa. There they climbed the 737 steps in the sheer rock to plant the Israeli flag where they were sure that Moses talked to God. At the nearby monastery of St. Catherine they picked the soldier with the best handwriting, and he wrote in the visitor's book: "We are the first unit of the Israel Army to stand...
Into Hellfire. Demoralized by these tactics-"Our best weapon," said one Israeli, "was sheer effrontery"-the bulk of the Egyptian army in Sinai collapsed like a pricked balloon. "The first night of operations," Ben-Gurion told the Knesset, "we took Kuntilla after twenty minutes of resistance, Ras el Naqb near Elath after a brief engagement and Quseima after forty-five minutes . . ." Only once, at the crucial road junction of Abu Aweigila on the Jerusalem-Ismailia highway, did Egyptian armor and artillery succeed in stalling the Israeli advance (TIME, Nov. 12). Tough Moshe Dayan, dashing about Sinai in a command...
...behest, and ordered to govern with a national Communist Party like that in Poland. His first Cabinet had been just that, an assemblage of Politburocrats with a few non-Communists for show. But somewhere along the road, perhaps because of personal conviction, more likely because of the sheer explosion of Hungarian antiCommunism, he dropped most of his Communists by the wayside and, to keep in power, he had to echo rebel demands for renunciation of the Warsaw Pact and withdrawal of Soviet troops...