Word: sheer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...newspapers had splashed all over Page One the specifics of her arrival. When her car pulled up at Symphony Hall, thousands of shouting, shoving people packed the sidewalk. Mounted policemen desperately maneuvered their horses to hold back the crowd. Looking slightly frightened, Jackie hurried inside, while cops used sheer force to keep the excited mob from pouring in after...
...score in the 140s and yet be too darned lazy to read a book or do any of the tough groundwork, and he'll fail at school," says the National Merit Scholarship Corporation's John Stalnaker. "Another kid may score much lower in the tests but by sheer devotion to his work, he'll succeed...
...wandering forlornly through Central Park. Looking up at the surrounding skyscrapers, he thought "of all the wonderful orchestras in America that cared nothing about my music." He had come "too soon," he decided. "The child (America) was not old enough to appreciate new music." Out of "sheer despair" he plunged into a new opera, The Flaming Angel-a manic-depressive nightmare set to unmelodic music. Last week, like some dark specter returned to haunt the scene of the crime, the opera was given its U.S. premiere by the enterprising New York City Opera company. Consensus was that even if America...
...announced price rises to cover the safety equipment. When G.M.'s Chairman Fred Donner 48 hours later announced that G.M.'s prices would be just about the same as last year, Chrysler was left about $50 out of line. Townsend acted either from cockiness or sheer need. Though Chrysler's sales have more than doubled since 1961, its rapid expansion of plants has left the company short of cash, and it needs money to finance a four-year, $1.7 billion growth program. Net working capital last year shrunk from $557 million to $385 million; Chrysler profits...
...genuinely exhiliarating "The weather here is salt; I want to scrub my soul in it. Typically, her best poem, Life Goes to a Party in Chelm, is her most audecious. It skips outrageously in and out of metaphores but they are never mixed, and she finally succeeds through sheer vitality...