Word: sheered
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What one member of the British Commonwealth observer group called "the sheer sweep of maladministration" forced interminable queues of voters to wait for more than twelve hours at many polling booths. As a result, there was a second, unscheduled day of balloting. Even as the votes were counted, the ruling military commission headed by Paulo Muwanga first imposed, and then reversed, a highhanded decision to withhold the election results and even nullify them. Finally, after conflicting victory claims by the rival parties, the first official results showed that the apparent winner was the broadly based United People's Congress...
Pipes yesterday described as "sheer and total fabrication" a paragraph in a quotation attributed to him in a New York Times column yesterday in which Pipes is reported to be proposing a State Department reorganization "which would move away from geographic subdivisions toward organizing along the lines of Communist and non-Communist states...
Generational hubris has always been especially robust in the children of the postwar baby boom; their sheer numbers gave many of them a swelling sense of their own inevitability, their unique moral Tightness. Everything they did was done in the incandescent certainty, the grand optical illusion, that it had never, ever been tried or felt before. No doubt as the baby boomers pass on through life, their millennial pretensions will do for middle age and old age what they did for youth in the '60s: in 35 years will come geriatric chic, revolution in the nursing homes. But just...
With shooting, field goal, turnover and rebound statistics virtually identical, the Eagle's victory was nothing more than sheer endurance. The hoopsters face Holy Cross at home this Thursday, and this time they can't afford to lose...
...Kistler has been watched closely since her first school workshop performance. During rehearsals for her final student appearance in Swan Lake last May, she had a hip injury, but danced "full out" the whole time. Says a friend: "She covered the pain for two hours every afternoon. It was sheer determination." Says Irina Kosmovska, who began teaching Darci in California when she was eleven: "Darci was a fountain of energy. She tried everything. She was one of my most intense students-she would commit suicide on the floor...