Word: sheers
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...though, experts agree, because no place can protect against every type of attack—especially at a place so diverse in buildings and people as Harvard. Even in New York, which has spent millions over the last decade preparing and training for a terrorist attack, the sheer scale of last week’s attack baffled many law enforcement officials. Before last week, few terrorist scenarios considered suicidal hijackers with pilot training...
Kudos to Joel Stein for "confusing" badly dressed rich women with prostitutes [NOTEBOOK, Aug. 27]. As a woman, I am embarrassed by the sheer vulgarity of certain "modern" females who wear their sexuality on their sleeve. It makes it difficult to be a serene, self-respecting American lady when so many of my countrywomen insist on dressing like women of the night. I'm not sure why they want to look cheap. DIANA COOPER Kentfield, Calif...
...fear is bad for the economy, patriotism is good for it, and so is the sheer simplifying philosophics of survival. How many petty problems seem smaller now, how many reasons small fears, are now swept aside forever? After all this, Americans have a thousand reasons to be afraid, as many to be proud, and as many to breathe the air and resolve to personally make the American Way - part liberty, part shopping - bigger and stronger than ever...
...India's western Himalayas. Tibet lay 50 km to the north. The road through the mountains had ended some 10 km back and 1,300 m below. A bank of wild marijuana was on our left, and a series of terraces on our right led down to a sheer 500-m drop into a river gorge. A priest had just decapitated a goat on the flat roof of a house. He lifted the animal's head to the sun, slowly turning so that all could see. Then his assistants cut off its hooves and placed one each at the four...
...party, which penetrated to the foot of Batu Lawi; a helicopter circled the rock. The expedition found nothing. One major gap in all the searches still remains, however: none of the search teams was able?or willing?to follow Manser and scale the murderously difficult last 100 meters of sheer limestone that forms the tip of Batu Lawi...