Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with Communist China for strategic reasons. But to compensate for its former large trade with mainland China, Japan must find greater outlets in the free world. We must open our markets to Japan or risk the greatest industrial nation in Asia slipping into the Communist orbit-either by the sheer necessity of trading with the Chinese Communists, or by growing economic distress leading to internal Communist subversion...
...Pivner, the all-too-common man, is a try at redoing Joyce's Mr. Bloom. While some shreds of humanist culture clung to Bloom, Pivner's brain is a sheer pulp of newspaper headlines, self-help manuals and radio commercials ("Hi, gang! Your friend Lazarus the Laughing Leper brings you radio's newest kiddies' program, The Lives of the Saints, sponsored by Necrostyle ... Don't forget, kids, Necrostyle, the wafer-shaped sleeping pill...
...Sheer Aplomb and Bravado...
...nervous at the first joint rehearsal with the orchestra. Although the session went as well as any joint rehearsal Koussevitzky had held, Munch was for from satisfied. He liked to feel he had everything under control before a concert, rather than have to make the performance a success through sheer aplomb and bravado...
Commenting at the Chicago panel on statements from Yale and Princeton which asserted their no-expansion policies, Francis H. Horn, president of the Pratt Institute, said: "This is sheer nonsense unless you admit that Yale or Princeton already has a diluted form of education . . . I think they still have a highly selective group...