Word: sheers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Division's G.l.s are black and other minorities.) Morale also seems high in most places. A young lieutenant compared his life at Camp Casey with that at a "jock college." Closer to the DMZ, soldiers suffer from isolation, primitive facilities (hot baths once a week) and sheer boredom. It is at these bleak forward outposts that the U.S. would suffer its first casualties if North Korea were ever to launch a major attack. Thus, for the G.l.s based there, the boredom of a seemingly interminable truce may well be a blessing...
...argument in favor of British membership is based on what is commonly known as the cold-shower gambit: that the stimulus of tariff-free access to the EEC's huge market (nearly 260 million consumers), combined with increased competition from European imports, will help revitalize British industry. The sheer challenge might force Britain to break out of the debilitating cycle of low productivity, low investment and high wage demands that has led to the nation's mounting trade deficit (an estimated $6.2 billion for 1975). But as the Guardian's Economic Columnist Frances Cairncross has pointed...
...mailing the money creates problems. About 35,000 checks a year get stolen. And the amount of clerical work is overwhelming. Says Treasury Official Les Plumly: "We have to print them, stuff them, seal them and mail them. If we don't find some other way, the sheer volume will sink the system...
...though he doesn't find Doar personally as attractive as O'Neill, and even Doar is a lawyer. Rodino, along with the rest of the Judiciary Committee, is not eclipsed by Breslin's concentration on O'Neill. Breslin respects their effort, and describes in detail their persistence, coordination and sheer stamina. Rodino worked so hard that when at one point the workload of the committee became almost unbearable, "girls coming to a Xerox machine in the Rayburn Building at two in the morning found Peter Rodino, in shirtsleeves, running the machine himself...
...strong, brutal manner; he bends, bashes and torments notes until they express what he desires. Usually building around a simple recognizable theme, Ayler relies on a rawness of emotion unfiltered through traditional structure that seems at first grating, but upon extended listening reveals a unique expressiveness. For sheer power of impact, Ayler rivals the loudest of rock bands. When he explodes shrieking into 'Holy Ghost,' the effect is nothing short of terrifying...