Word: sheer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that Richard Nixon and John Foster Dulles tried to save the Administration. Said Chicago Daily News Publisher John Knight: "While the Vice President is intensely loyal to the Administration, he is to be commended for talking so forthrightly when so many of the President's advisers are mouthing sheer nonsense.'' Wrote New York Times Columnist Arthur Krock: "It is the first orderly formula that a high officer of the Administration has offered." But even that orderly formula would be meaningless until it was translated into action...
...considered Leader Hugh Gaitskell's favorite proposal to switch from "oldfashioned nationalization" to a scheme for state buying of shares in key industries (TIME, July 29). Bevan, a longtime and passionate advocate of nationalization, sat impassively on the platform as old-line Socialists jeered Gaitskell from the floor. "Sheer capitalism," yelled a delegate. "I'd better take off me boots and put on me spats," said a quarry worker from the midlands. Asked old (72) Manny Shin well, grizzled orator from the smoky Clydeside: "Have I been fighting 54 years for Socialism for nothing?" Even Bevan...
Industrialization is not boosted or inflation cured by overspending for armaments, by constant overreaching for "too much," by sheer "waste" from planning caused by pure political expediency. "If governments become the prisoners of their own more or less arbitrary development targets, in all probability something will have to give under the pressures of inflation and the impatience generated because practice is not living up to promise. And perhaps the greatest danger is not that development will give, but that government by the consent of the governed will be abandoned...
...Algeria, Cyprus, Kashmir, Syria, South Africa, Red China's membership, Palestine refugees, Hungary's aftermath, disarmament. The words would be many and searing, but the professionals on hand hoped that little action would be required. Even India, which sometimes seems to be rocking the boat for the sheer pleasure of making waves, was said to be in a mood to sit still because of its urgent need for economic help from abroad...
...befits one of the most widely read authors in the U.S., Erskine Caldwell, 53, lives handsomely and high. Perched on a sheer-sloped San Francisco peak, his rented modernistic house is on the second-highest street in town. To get in the mood for his methodical 9-to-5 workday, Caldwell simply pulls down the shades to shut out the magnificent view. In the evenings Caldwell and his fourth wife dine out, often at Trader Henri's, a favored hangout of the beard-and-sandal Bohemian set. Says Caldwell: "I don't go for the atmosphere...