Word: sheer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tory barrister, William Rees-Davies, answered Paget. Acting for various church groups who own much property in the red-light areas, Rees-Davies had interviewed some 250 prostitutes, concluded that what drove the vast majority into their profession was sheer "laziness." One prostitute, he reported, drove up to his office in a Rolls-Bentley, asked his help in freeing her boy friend, who had been charged as a pimp. She said that she earned $17,000 a year and paid no income tax because "it has all been paid by those who give me presents...
...about Cuba began to recede from the front pages last week, they left many a second-day thought in U.S. city rooms and editorial offices. How well did the U.S. press cover the revolution in Cuba? While there were some examples of fine reporting as well as cases of sheer irresponsibility, the answer that most newsmen reluctantly reached about the overall performance was: Not very good...
...Sheer lack of sophistication is evidenced by the argument that the CDF-run MeBAC would represent "unfair competition" to independent drama groups, apparently on the theory that all the arts are in constant cutthroat competition and that a customer for one theatre is a customer lost to another. We are sure the CRIMSON does not seriously think that the Fogg and Busch-Reisinger museums subtract their visitors from the sum-total of gallery-goers, or that someone who buys a ticket for the Budapest String Quartet will not patronize the Boston Opera Group...
Twenty days' march from the beach, the few remaining rebels reached blessed refuge in the Sierra Maestra, a wilderness of sheer cliffs, snarled liana vines and pockets of thick, orange mud. Batista, in a fatal mistake, overconfidently withdrew his troops. Castro and his men lived on plantains and mangos-and waited. The first break came from Jose ("Pepe") Figueres, President of Costa Rica, 800 miles to the southwest. To a hastily cleared Sierra airstrip, Socialist Figueres sent a twin-engined Beechcraft loaded with rifles, Tommy guns, ammunition and grenades. "I felt sorry for that man," Pepe explained...
...dismissed from the Point in the mishandled "cribbing scandal," Blaik resolutely stayed on, brought Army back to football greatness, last year had another unbeaten season. Last week, at 61, he resigned, denied he was leaving because of friction with Army brass over the Academy's no-Bowl policy ("sheer malarky"), or for health reasons ("bunk"), said only: "I decided I'd had it." ¶ Independent boxing promoters, managers and fighters rejoiced last week when the U.S. Supreme Court upheld an antitrust decree against the International Boxing Clubs of New York and Illinois. The decision broke the strangle hold...