Word: sheers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...skin knew anything of my intentions," he said, "I would tear them off"); he was capable of barefaced sophistry in diplomacy, but he frankly admitted in a private letter and in his memoirs that one reason for his seizure of Silesia at the beginning of his reign was sheer vanity...
...greatest danger to the peace lies with this increasing emphasis on sheer economic and military power. A disagreement on German economic reconstruction, the collision over American aid to Greece and Turkey, and the enervating process of finding a suitable peace treaty all point up a short-sighted conflict of material interests which is ultimately more dangerous than a difference over political theories. Ideological name calling will hardly lead to a third world war, but the intense and ultimate clash of interests and ambitions must be resolved if peace can be secured...
Jeepers, college at last. And I'm all set for that first football game. Love this new style of ankle length coats; maybe this year my feet won't look so blue. No, they couldn't be blue cause I'll wear my sheer black stockings...
Joepers, college at last. And I'm all not for that first football game. Love this new style of ankle length coasts; maybe this year my foot won't look so blue. No, they couldn't be blue cause I'll wear my sheer black stockings...
...look bright. There some 16,000 coal miners went out on an unauthorized strike over the Government's request that they work harder in return for a five-day week. In vain burly Will Lawther, president of the National Union of Mineworkers, pleaded with them. "This is sheer anarchy," he cried, "more than criminal at a time like this." A miner in Armthorpe summed up the long-smoldering disappointment of his fellows: "Nationalization don't make no difference. There's still the bloody boss...