Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gushy. Both Osgood and Frank agreed that Communist China's aggressive big mouth may be a result of its fear of American power-sheer "bluster and growl" to ward off a powerful competitor. Frank even suggested therapy. "In approaching a deeply suspicious person," he cautioned, "it does not pay to be too friendly. Since he is convinced that you mean him no good, he is prone to misinterpret an overly friendly manner as an effort to put something over on him. So a firm, reserved, but not unfriendly manner makes more headway than effusiveness." In many ways, Frank...
...Sheer Poppycock." Taking the Senate floor to scuttle the scheme, Russell pooh-poohed the notion that the CIA makes U.S. foreign policy ("sheer poppycock"), warned that an enlarged committee would only increase the possibility of security leaks that could endanger the lives of the agency's "sources." What privately troubled many Senators was that the anti-Viet Nam war, power-is-arrogance clique that dominates Fulbright's committee might not be the most objective overseers of the nation's most important intelligence...
Born in the sit-ins of 1960, S.N.C.C.-commonly known as SNICK-immediately became the most aggressive of the civil rights groups, sometimes appalling older outfits by its sheer bullheadedness. As legal barriers to Negro freedom dropped some S.N.C.C. leaders appeared to reject cooperation with whites as a kind of treasonous collaboration. Before the Alabama primary earlier this month, they even urged Negroes to boycott the election and to give their votes to independent Negro candidates in November...
...Harvard stage as comedians, and the fifth as a dancer. Emily Levine gives a spine-chilling performance as the mother, easily her best to date, and not once does she lapse into any of the mannerisms that have marked her last three performances. Susan Channing plays the daughter. Her sheer technical skill is amazing, and she manipulates the emotions of the audience with the slightest change of expression. Bea Paipert plays the Cook and effectively establishes the mood and tone of the production, on which the other characters have to build. If Joel Silverstein and Jim Shuman...
Harvey Brooks, Dean of Engineering and Applied Physics, yesterday called the rating system "not entirely meaningful." "Berkeley has five to ten times the number of faculty members that we have in engineering. Sheer numbers put them in front," Brooks continued...