Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...intelligence estimates that more than 200 Venezuelans went to Cuba for training last year, and as one U.S. official says, "We do not consider it sheer coincidence that the Venezuelan democratic government is being subjected most heavily to the terrorist and guerrilla activities of Castro Communists...
...platform jutting from a sheer, null gorge in the Zagros Mountains, the Shah of Iran picked up a ceremonial telephone and spoke an order. Seconds later, tons of water from the Ab-i-Diz River below crashed through sluice gates and began turning giant dynamos. A knot of Cabinet ministers, diplomats and engineers burst into hat-waving cheers as. down in the canyon, electricity began flowing into Moslem villages that had never before known the magic of plug-in power...
...more irritating is the sheer bulk of rules. "There's a rule for this cigarette," one girl protested, "there's a rule for this rug, there's one for that piano, there's one for this tapestry...
...opening minutes of the sudden-death overtime, the varsity collected a penalty for having too many men on the ice. In the 120 seconds of sheer desperation that followed, Wood made five stops and Dave Johnston, a second goalie on the ice, made two more...
...does Stone stone Stone? The unwary reader may think it is out of sheer petulance. But the real clue to this odd story is to be found not in the novel itself, but in Dr. Fiedler's critical writings-notably Love and Death in the American Novel. Read thus, The Second Stone offers some of the rarest pleasure of the year, combining the attractions of Scrabble, the double-crostic, literary name-spotting and one-upmanship with the humbler delights of the whodunit. This is a parable and the characters are crazy mythed-up people...