Word: sheer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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According to his journal, Penkovsky approached Western sources-both in Moscow and abroad-many times before he convinced the West that he was a legitimate informer. His reasons: sheer hatred of Nikita Khrushchev, coupled with fear of thermonuclear war. Once in the confidence of the West, Penkovsky turned his embittered talents to transmitting everything he knew to the West. Penkovsky's contact was Greville Wynne, a businessman and go-between for British intelligence who served as Penkovsky's chief courier...
...perennial success in the Ivy League is due to the anachronistic single wing offense which Coach Dick Colman employs. In the single wing, the ball is snapped to one of two backs who are stationed about four yards behind the line of scrimmage. The attack depends more on sheer power than on finesse and deception. Its great advantage for Princeton, though, lies not in any inherent advantage of the single wing over the T-formation, Since nobody uses the single wing any more, rival coaches find it difficult to prepare the teams in one week of practice to cope with...
...wore on, the voices of Rhodesia's blacks poured in with rising volume. "Listen," said one white Rhodesian, "the savages are singing." They were indeed. Under black umbrellas and dazzling docks (headdresses), the African masses chanted "We want our country," and sang "Zimbabwe shall be free." But the sheer inertia of the positions-the safety, however momentary, that is inherent in stalemate-slowly took effect...
...epochal performance started innocently enough, as Willig totalled 450 after his first two balls. But the third ball was sheer poetry. The sandy-haired senior lit all four bumpers almost immediately, caromed the silver spheroid against the century target several times, and made brilliant saves repeatedly. When the smoke had cleard, Willig had surpassed 1900 points -- and everyone at Tommy's lunch knew he might be seeing history in the making...
...Khrushchev's cultural hatchet man, Leonid Ilyichev, has been removed; Stalin's pet geneticist, Trofim Lysenko, has been disavowed by Russian science; imaginative and critical writing appears frequently in Soviet publications so long as it remains within limits. More importantly, B. & K. seem to recognize the sheer public-relations value inherent in "liberalization." Says one Washington Kremlin-watcher: "These men would like to handle this whole thing as quietly as possible. They don't want to be brutal and cause an outcry of protests abroad. They are not interested in big trials and another Pasternak incident...