Word: sheers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Moving right along, the group drives to California's Yosemite National Park, resplendent with great waterfalls, the sheer granite face of El Capitan, the sublime giant sequoias, the teeming thousands of campers, hikers and rock climbers. Refreshed, they turn toward Los Angeles and captivating Disneyland. Trollope is incredulous; Dickens is amused...
There is more Proustian remembrance to come, mostly in what may be described as sandlots-revisited prose: "It is difficult to express the sheer beauty I experienced facing leftward, feeling the blazing sun upon my head, feeling the weedy field fly beneath my feet . . . looking back and spotting it, falling out of the silvery blue sky, glinting in the sun, the burning pointed oval that my out stretched fingers so desired...
...sure, there have been attempts in the past to rectify the situation. Apart from those that suggested sheer violence, the only sensible approach was to bring in a fleet of London taxis, which are wondrously compact and comfortable, can turn on a tuppence, and come equipped with diesel engines and drivers who say "Sir," "Madam," and "Thank you." Some New York operators experimented with a London cab in Manhattan eight years ago, but rejected it when they discovered that the passengers enjoyed the ride...
Assistant U.S. Attorney Larry E. Parrish, who prosecuted the case, yesterday termed Dershowitz's contention that Reems could not have been convicted under the old court test "sheer speculation at the very best...
Pound was reportedly disgusted with Paris, and that generally describes his feelings about London, when he left there for Paris in 1921. But whatever his motives for moving to Italy--it could have been sheer caprice--Pound, by the following year, was converted to Fascism. "I personally think extremely well of Mussolini," he wrote to Harriet Monroe of Poetry magazine in November, 1925. "If one compares him to American presidents (the last three) or British premiers, etc., in fact one cannot without insulting him. If the intellegentsia don't think well of him, it is because they know nothing about...