Word: sheer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...must have been an officer who said that war is 5% sheer fright and 95% boredom. An enlisted man knows better. To the ordinary gob of the U.S. Navy, World War II was 90% boredom, 9% infuriating trivia, and only about 1% was composed of that combination of terror and exhilaration in which battles are decided. Surprisingly little of this has come through previous accounts of what life-and death-was like for the anonymous masses of men jammed into the seagoing ovens plying the Pacific, largely because most World War II books have been written by admirals and reporters...
Miss Hiatt faced a huge (175-voice), enthusiastic group on the medium-sized Sanders stage; its sheer size was almost frightening. At no point, though, was she ever out of control. Her singers made no sounds without her specific instruction and she managed to mold the great masses of tone into carefully sculptured forms embellished with a variety of textures...
...Mountaineering Club is attempting an extremely difficult ascent of the 19,420-foot North Peak of Mt. McKinley. The climb involves scaling Wickersham Wall, a sheer precipice of rock which rises some 14,000 feet. A group of Canadians climbed the wall last month, but the eastern route of the Harvard climbers is considerably more challenging than the route taken by the Canadian party...
...Occasionally there is a nice wacky line (Missionary: "Do you like Bach?" Hope: "I'll drink anything"), but for the most part the picture is sheer bwanality...
What they all seek, of course, is love, love, love. Now, in a tragi-cosmic fable which is his first try at fiction, Feiffer tells them what life would be like if they really found it. Sheer hell...