Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ball can be played, as in squash. Players wield short-handled wooden paddles, get only one serve for each point. The heavy sponge-rubber ball, colored orange so that it shows up against snowy backgrounds, is extremely lively, with the result that sharply angled shots become as important as sheer power. Favorite ploys include the deep lob that forces the opponent away from the net and a low, sinking squash shot that slides off the wires at an oblique angle...
...services, and now the ministers of the two congregations share the responsibilities of presiding at Sunday worship. On a recent Sunday, for example, Presbyterian Logan Barnes preached the sermon while Methodist Minister Travis Kendall led the prayers. Kendall believes that this kind of "yoked congregation" is increasingly necessary for "sheer survival," makes possible "so many things that we couldn't offer separately. What we are doing now is the forerunner of what will happen all over the country...
...merchandise. They stage lotteries, giving successive winners the privilege of buying whatever is left on the shelves, which is not always what they started out to buy. In Mandalay, some Catholic priests entered one of the local lotteries, only to win the opportunity to buy some women's sheer blouses...
...otherwise the meet was one of sheer gloom. Andy Kopecki (123) received his first loss of the season -- the hard way. Leading the Maroon's Jim Mathias, 5-4, Kopecki suffered a rapid succession escape, take down...
...rebutting Harris, Lowenstein focused on the criteria of efficacy: students, he said, could have a considerably impact on government policy; but they must appeal to the "broad middle" of the American public, accomplishing with large numbers what they might not be able to do with sheer intensity of feeling...