Word: sheer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were shocked into a new appreciation of law and order. "Ain't things got terrible?" wailed one frail old woman who had demonstrated against integration only the day before. "This is no longer a matter of segregation or desegregation," said one school official. "This is a matter of sheer lawlessness. We're up against thugs...
...access to minutes of Kremlin meetings, makes the significant point that for all of Mikoyan's helpful contributions to Khrushchev's foreign policy, the astute Armenian has taken care not to associate himself too conspicuously with Khrushchev's domestic policy. This policy, which Bialer characterizes as "sheer economic adventurism," proclaims the highest priority simultaneously for heavy industry, for consumer goods and for agriculture, and bases its hopes of fulfillment not on basic expansion of plant but on increased efficiency-to be won simply by decentralizing and streamlining the vast Soviet economic bureaucracy. Mikoyan, says Bialer...
...midsummer, Althea was taking lessons from Fred Johnson, a one-armed pro at the now defunct biracial Cosmopolitan tennis club. Her game, which had been an exercise in sheer power, began to show signs of sophistication. Now all her life was focused on tennis. She quit school and went to work. She was a counter girl in a Chock Full o' Nuts shop in lower Manhattan, a chicken cleaner on Long Island ("I used to have to take out the guts and everything, but I still like chicken"), an elevator operator in the midtown Dixie Hotel, a packer...
...into 2,000 ft. of air ("the worst fear I ever had to overcome"), Bonatti finally found a tiny fissure in the rock. He pounded in steel pitons, and from them he and Gobbi hung backward over nothing while easing out from under the rock to reach the sheer green ice face above. There, with Ice Expert Gobbi leading, they climbed 2,000 ft. more, camped the second night on another inches-wide ledge in a freezing wind...
...theory that the steel industry is a bellwether for the economy, that if steel raises or lowers its prices steel-using industries will automatically raise or lower theirs, U.S. Steel Corp. Board Chairman Roger M. Blough had a curt reply: "Sheer economic superstition." Said Blough last week: "All the money the American people spend for steel in a year is so small, in comparison to their total expenditures for all the other things they buy, that any change in the price of steel is overwhelmed by the price movement of other goods and services which make up the average family...