Word: sheer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ours is becoming the golden age of the law," says Rhyne. Despite the U.N.'s political paralysis, its various subgroups have probably created more international law in the past 20 years than existed in all previous history. Most of it stems from sheer necessity, as trade and travel shrink the world. Hundreds of new agreements cover subjects ranging from space rights to the continental shelf, and the U.S. alone is party to more than 1,400 treaties involving everything from the nuclear test ban to the legal status of G.I.s in foreign lands...
...predicted that the "discouraging" system will take virtually all choice away from the Masters. "No one wants to choose from sheer statistics; we are interested in individuals," he said...
Star Witness Rowe, who had been an FBI informant in the Klan for more than five years-during which the FBI paid him a total of $9,000-told a story that for sheer throat-gripping drama could scarcely be equaled except in fiction...
...audience at Sanders Theatre Friday night heard the best music that's been played at Harvard all year, and they probably had more fun than anyone else in Cambridge. The HRO concert was more than music--it was sheer delight...
...Sheer exaggeration provides both the humor and the violence of Sanjuro. You see nine-men-plus-Mifune against a body of God-knows-how-many evil men. Mifune's swordplay in the slaughter scenes is so fake it's scarcely worth suspending your disbelief. Yet you don't think about that when he's slicing through whole screensful of villains. Unfortunately exaggeration is lacking where it most belongs, in the character of "Sanjuro," played by Mifune. He is good chiefly at two things: swaggering around scratching his neck, and jumping up and down hurling insults at his antagonists. Kurosawa doesn...