Word: sheers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russian bank where the bridge was to be built was low, flat and easily seen by the Germans atop their high, sheer bank. Engineer Sosnovkin therefore decided to build his bridge backwards from the German side, beginning it in the shelter of the high bank. On a night when clouds hid the moon and snow shrouded the river, the strongest swimmers crossed with the foundation stones in stretchers and in their tunics. Others swam with the logs. Blue-black with cold, praying that the ice along the bank would not crack and betray them by the sound, they laid...
...completely, and even personality is in flux? The critic traces Virginia Woolf's attempt at a solution, from her earliest novels, through her boldly experimental short stories, to the great achievements of her middle period, and the less successful attempts of her later years, which were carried off by sheer virtuosity in her command of language. He shows how she introduced the lyric element into the novel, turning from the epic style of earlier novelists to focus on the moment, on the unique personal experience. This experience is given added poignancy by her feeling that "personality . . . was a unity arising...
Songwriter, actor, dancer, vaudevillian. playwright, Cohan was never equaled-even by Noel Coward-for sheer versatility. But his many talents had a single aim, a showman's aim: to please the crowd. "First think of something to say," his formula ran, "Then say it the way the theatergoer wants to hear it-meaning, of course, that you must lie like the dickens." Of pure Irish stock, he never plugged the wearing of the green-it was always the red, white & blue...
Same day Messrs. Green and Murray, up before the Senate Labor committee, wheeled into range of Mr. McNutt and laid down a barrage calculated to destroy every living thing for miles around. Murray shot the heaviest load, dismissing most of McNutt's proposals as "sheer nonsense," and saying flatly...
...took guts or sheer stupidity (or both) to make a crack like that. Laborites were out baying after Jerry Land before an investment banker could say "excess profits." Joseph Edwin Curran, National Maritime Union president: "We've known all along what that old bird 'thinks of labor. ... He should be removed so the war effort should not be further impeded." Philip Murray, C.I.O. president: ". . . one of the most dangerous blows at the unity of this nation. . . ." William Green, A.F. ofL. boss: ". . . stupidity and utter ridiculousness...