Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there is no quick way, for instance, to edit a lengthy manuscript and to check and recheck the galley proofs for printer's errors. A book must wait its turn at hard-pressed printing plants, like Kingsport Press in Tennessee, one of the largest in the U.S. The sheer bulk of books retards their progress; jobbers have only so much storage, and can be poky about emptying their warehouses to make room for new consignments. To meet some topical demand, however, a paperback
...game's final 11 minutes were sheer frustration for Harvard. Went blocked a shot by Carr he didn't even see. A play from Smith to Parrot to McCullough ended with the Crimson captain futilely banging rebounds from the crease into Went's pads...
Victim's Victim. Bailey's passion for preparation helped win the Sheppard case, which he tackled for sheer challenge at the urging of Sheppard's friends as far back as 1961. With no promise of a fee, he scoured 9,808 pages of briefs and testimony, won a Supreme Court reversal last June on historic grounds of "prejudicial publicity." Then he discarded the 1954 defense theory that Marilyn Sheppard's killer was a stranger. For. the 1966 retrial, he says, "we had to destroy Marilyn...
There is undoubtedly too much buying for show, status and the sheer pleasure of expensive gadgetry. Perhaps the audio addict spent ridiculous amounts of money on massive monaural hi-fi rigs. But he later switched to stereo and small speakers not out of mere faddism but because they were better. Basically, the American wants what is best, not what will last forever. What upwardly mobile American really wants a car that will last 30 years, as he watches newer models go by, with power steering and brakes, pushbutton windows, et al. Or the refrigerator without automatic defrosting? The stove without...
...sheer futility, frustration and fiscal irresponsibility, nothing in sport can match the attempts of non-American sailors to capture the America's Cup-the $500 trophy that has remained in U.S. hands for 115 years. The British have tried 16 times, the Canadians twice, the Australians once-all have failed. Hope still springs, as long as somebody springs for the price (upwards of $300,000) of a sleek 12-meter yacht. Next September Australia will go again. After trial races in Sydney last week, Top Skipper Jock Sturrock, 51, was eager to boast that...