Word: sheer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They went first to the lodge -- a wooden lodge much like a ski lodge, containing the office and dining room and kitchen--to register, and then went up to their room, where Stewart and Sara left Paul and the boy to settle in. Besides the sheer physical majesty of the place, what the boy noticed most was the silence. In the office where they registered, on the way up to their room, even at dinner--in the large dining room with 40 or 50 people eating simultaneously--there was an eery, unsettling quiet, which the boy was not quite able...
...ever saw a more stirring exhibition of sheer manliness and skill on the part of young people than that put on by our football team in the closing minutes of its final game of this past fall? Here was at least event in which all Harvard men could unite in enthusiasm and lifting of spirit...
...until I reached the stage. Most of the audience had left by this time, and the curtain had been raised, revealing Desmond Heeley's dusky set. I placed my hand on the stage to touch it, perhaps to make sure that this play was no illusion, perhaps out of sheer mystical reverence--like the apes with the monolith...
...largest-and by any measure its proudest -glass manufacturer, was fighting for its corporate life. Still more astonishing, it was battling against an American-style takeover attempt by a much smaller competitor, Boussois Souchon Neuvesel. Last week the great glass battle ended with Saint-Gobain overpowering the upstart by sheer financial force...
Echo of Empire. For all its drawbacks, the Commonwealth gives Britons something -they might regret losing: an echo of empire. An amorphous grouping of white and yellow, black and brown, it is well-nigh unequaled for sheer curiosity and panoply. There in London last week were the Daimler sedans, each with a Special Branch man riding shotgun in the front, whisking delegates from their suites in Claridges, Grosvenor House or the Dorchester to the Regency-style Marlborough House. There at the meeting itself was Harold Wilson, impatiently tapping his outsize Tanzanian meerschaum on the mahogany conference table when a speaker...