Word: sheers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Against Labor's new rotation shift system, the Tories (outnumbered 394 to 190) could put up nothing but strong black coffee and sheer physical stamina...
Theaters with their roofs blown off and their walls caved in are housing productions of Shakespeare, Chekhov, O'Neill, Ibsen, Schiller, and a repertory of at least 40 Broadway plays. Productions are on an artistic level (in direction, acting, scenery, etc.) that, except for sheer lavishness, would shame a good deal of the stuff shown on Broadway. You can see a wider variety of good theater of all kinds in two months in Berlin than in two years on Broadway...
This total exposure of genteel lust is an invitation from Mr. Noel Coward to step into his parlor. Once enmeshed in that strategically appointed web, the spectator is enticed by sheer wit to rest his repressions as the master's charming child-adults parade their riotously adulterous lives. The Blithe Spirit Private Lives formula is only slightly varied, but the cracks are fresh and strictly bon ton. Here are no new ideas, no thought, no stimulation--unless concurrent mistresses is your idea of a good time. Dear Noel's world, artfully constructed of gold cloth and pastel pasteboard, contains...
...part the difficulty went beyond labor inefficiency to the sheer size of the goal that the U.S. had set itself. This year the nation had hoped to produce 6,000,000 automobiles, start 1,200,000 houses and other goods in like proportion. This overall program was so great that neither materials nor labor were sufficient to meet it in a single year. Materials were spread so thin that shortages held back all production, until neither the normal efficiency nor normal profits of mass production could be achieved...
...agent in Rio because she goes for the Grant version of the strong, silent type. In time one thing leads to another, and sandwiched in among poisoned cups of coffee and champagne bottles loaded with uranium ore is a five minute amatory session that can best be described as sheer vicarious delight...