Word: sheer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last year MacBird (we are told) has been circulating at anti-war rallies and publishers' luncheons, waiting for a cause to happen to it. None did, and the critics made their own. MacDonald, Brustein, Clureman and Robert Lowell declared the play a theatrical experience of sheer delight, even if its political argument was pernicious nonsense; Kerr and Lionel Abel took no delight at all in the politics, and found no other grounds for applause. MacBird's referents in real life are obvious and tangible: a jowly, gutter-mouthed Lyndon Johnson supported by assorted cronies and a megalomaniacal wife; a string...
...shrunken world, Interpol is the first to concede that its work is barely holding the line against an upsurge in border-hopping crimes, from stealing credit cards and rented cars to fraudulent property sales and fakery of U.S. dollars. Fortunately, the sheer volume of such crime distracts Interpol from any interest in such divisive matter as spying-or so it proudly claims. "In an affair involving politics, religion or race," runs one of its prime rules, "Interpol is deaf and dumb...
...officials know that progressive village conditions depends much more on sheer military security than Mr. Woodward may realize. The first priority, unfortunately, should not be on land reform and taxes as he says. They are not as great a problem as is the lack of government in the villages. Initial reforms must create organized structures with sufficient motivation and capacity to administer solutions to national problems on a national scale...
...that foreign "sporty car" drivers in foreign machines have won the last two 500s, there was California's Dan Gurney, who blasted his American Eagle around the track at a fantastic 167.2 m.p.h.-demolishing the four-lap record set last year by Mario Andretti. And; for aficionados of sheer daring, there was Andretti himself...
Cluttering rooftops, bristling from satellites and planes, protruding from walkie-talkies and TV sets, antennas are both a symbol and a necessity of the communications age. To transmit and receive signals efficiently, however, antennas must often be inconveniently large. Their sheer bulk adds crucial pounds to the weight of spacecraft, causes extra drag on the otherwise streamlined surfaces of supersonic aircraft, and is a dead giveaway to the location of radio operators on the battlegrounds of Viet Nam. Now, because of the persistence of an Air Force scientist, antennas are about to be cut down to size...