Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...testing a plane when the main fuel line broke, gasoline flooded the cockpit and caught fire. Pride held his breath, so as not to inhale flames, and crashed in the Potomac River. His jaw and left leg were broken. Doctors decided to amputate the leg, but by sheer chance, a new chief surgeon reported for duty and agreed to delay the operation. The leg was saved, but Pride still walks with a limp. Says he: "I have to carry a little left rudder all the time...
...sheer output, no English painter of the 18th century came close to the eccentric genius. George Morland. In a brief lifetime he finished about 4,000 canvases, most of them seascapes, sentimental family groupings and bucolic country scenes...
...Lion. If Scott drew on his tradition, his greatest disciple created the most popular works in igth Century French literature by sheer personal exuberance. The son of an illegitimate mulatto general from Santo Domingo, Dumas crashed the august Comédie Française with a rip-roaring historical drama, Henri III and His Court, and became the kinky-maned lion of Paris...
...Morse and Neuberger, in or out of tandem, give Oregon the most fascinating pair of Senators currently on Capitol Hill. For sheer showmanship, Oregon's delegation to the upper house will be a No. 1 attraction in the new Congress...
Ever since war's end, when automen started the great horsepower race in earnest, there have been complaints that safety was neglected for speed and power. Any further boost in either horsepower or size, cried New York Traffic Commissioner T. T. Wiley, would be "sheer madness." Auto makers have "gone on a horsepower jag . . . as insidious as dope." Added Denver's Traffic Engineer Jack Bruce: "We're running 300-h.p. cars on 50-h.p. streets." But despite the highway toll, the cold fact is that safety on the road is greater now than it was before World...