Word: sheers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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McGovern is undoubtedly right in arguing that America's safety does not depend upon sheer nuclear numbers, as the recent U.S.-Soviet agreements bear witness. And there is always a mood in the country to cut back on arms in the wake of a war. But the net effect of McGovern in the White House would likely be that the U.S. would be living more dangerously. No one can be sure, for example, that the nuclear arms race can be slowed more by the example of unilateral U.S. reductions than by bargaining based on threats of escalation...
...siege of An Loc had not yet been broken at week's end, but airborne troops had managed to reach the city, which-through allied air power and the sheer endurance of its Vietnamese defenders-had held out even longer than Dien Bien Phu. TIME Correspondent Rudolph Rauch and Photographer Le Minh managed to enter the city last week by helicopter. Rauch was one of the first two American correspondents to reach An Loc since the siege began. He sent this report...
...Keith Richard's face. Singing the frantic Gimmie Shelter, Jagger stands fey in the middle of it, bouncing time with one scarecrow leg, left hand inverted on his hip like an artist balancing before his easel. For Tumbling Dice, he strips off his denim jacket to reveal a sheer white jersey shirt that matches the clinging pants. And then Mick dances around Bassist Bill Wyman standing stiff and still in his new suit, sips on a Coors between choruses, trades vocal lines with Richard...
Corrupt Priest. Some of the confessions must have been sheer defiance: faced with a ruling establishment that was sanctified by the church, a resentful peasantry followed the only image of rebellion they knew?Satan. The satanic messiah became especially appealing in times of despair, such as the era of the plague known as the Black Death. Real or imagined, the pact with the Devil may have been the last bad hope for safety in a world fallen out of joint. Thousands died in the persecution, many of them probably guilty
...assigning of absolute internal or external causes for suicide-from sheer loneliness to Freud's famous death wish-founders on the mysterious (and miraculous) fact that under similar stresses some people kill themselves and some do not. Counselors like Pretzel naturally worry less about absolutes and man's right to die than they do about the necessary conspiracy of the living to help one another carry on. An estimated 90% of attempted suicides who are saved by prevention centers are pitifully grateful afterward...