Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Three Out of Three. For sheer exuberance, though, nobody quite matched Spokane's Gerry Lindgren, 18, who hardly looks old enough to carry the water bucket for the best track and field team ever assembled in the U.S. A frail (120 Ibs.), squeaky-voiced high school graduate who can't make up his mind whether he wants to be a biologist or a politician, Lindgren runs at least 200 miles a week-"in the sand like Herb Elliott, up hills like Peter Snell." But until last June, Lindgren had never run a 10,000-meter race...
...Gilles Segal) leap out of the pit, run crouching to a door, dart stealthily across a large dim room and go leaping up a narrow stair within the walls. Once on the roof, they make a risky traverse and arrive, with twilight coming on, at the brink of a sheer parapet interrupted here and there with iron-barred apertures...
...shame of being a defeated, compromised nation. Largely soothed are the rankling humiliations that led to self destructive politics at home, futile colonial ventures abroad, and a snarling attitude toward foreigners. Not all of this is necessarily real; much of it is the reflection of De Gaulle's sheer will, and when he is gone, France may again be gravely threatened by those "uncertainties and divisions." And for France's allies, De Gaulle's independent foreign policy can be a trial. But, in sum, the strong France of today represents a tremendous net gain for the West...
...incisive critical essays have revealed her pantheon: Freud, Shakespeare, Mozart and Jane Austen. To Great God Freud she has already devoted a book, Black Ship to Hell; now the 18th century composer gets his. In Mozart, her scholarship is firm, and the writing is good Brophy, but it is sheer gusto and freshness of thought that make the book a joy to read...
...After all, they reason, they can go to a show in Manhattan. What does lure them to the fair is its impressive array of industrial and cultural pavilions-nearly all admission-free. More visitors (28%) comment on its "educational value" than any other aspect of the fair save its sheer "magnitude." Judging from the lines in front of the G.E., IBM, G.M. and Ford pavilions, the average fairgoer wants to goggle at scientific wonders, to inspect the future, or see a prehistoric spectacular such as Ford's battle of the dinosaurs (bodies by Disney...