Word: sheers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would have lost a great deal if many schools had not admitted minority students who have accomplished so much. These so called disadvantaged and deprived and deficient students have overcome immense barriers of subtle, statistical and insidious racism and exclusion, all because of their incredible strength, tenacity and sheer will...
...leaders be identified at an early age, then nurtured and encouraged? The question is very nearly unanswerable, since a combination of innate ability, early influences, later opportunity and sheer luck seems to make leadership a wholly unpredictable eruption. Nonetheless, one TIME task force explored the proposition that at an early age leaders come to feel separate, different from their peers. Members of the group spent part of one session recounting their own formative experiences. Excerpts...
...even buildings recognized as "historic," by any definition, are often destroyed out of sheer indifference. The list of lost buildings and their memories compiled by the National Trust is depressingly long. One example in particular makes me cringe, a description in Forgotten Architecture of a firefighting exercise in Annandale...
...inner and the outer realities." That reflection is caught in every segment of the show: newsreels are continually interspersed with cuts from memorable films. Often, as when World War II melodramas are blended with the real thing, the sequences are both striking and moving. Sometimes the results are sheer hilarity. "Throughout the '30s," the narration says, "America's biggest factories were its dream factories." Factual glimpses of that decade are juxtaposed with scene after scene of little Shirley Temple, ever an orphan, lisping and dancing her way into the audience's heart. The moody films...
...Bicentennial I greet the United States of America on behalf of the 600 million people of India. The United States evokes three dominant physical images: its sheer vastness and natural endowment, the vitality and outgoing friendliness of its people, and its immense achievements as a civilization, measured by the profusion of its industrial and agricultural production and the dynamism of its scientific institutions and technological laboratories, symbolized by its space program...