Word: sheer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...battle witnessed by Correspondent De Carvalho was at El Argoup, 25 miles southeast of San'a, where 500 Yemenis commanded by Prince Abdullah attacked an Egyptian position on top of a sheer-sided hill that was fortified with six So viet T-54 tanks, a dozen armored cars and entrenched machine guns. The Yemenis, advancing in a thin skirmish line, were plastered by artillery, mortars and strafing planes. They could reply only with rifles, one mortar with 20 rounds, and a bazooka with four rounds-handled by a man who had never fired a bazooka before in his life...
...Arizona and are planting 125,000 acres more. Florida's citrus growers, who have been moving southward to escape the frost, have drained thousands of acres once suited only for cattle raising. The result, according to Miami Banker Ellis Clark: "The expansion was getting out of hand. In sheer volume alone, the crop was taxing our ability to move...
April was also an important month for the national shelter program. The impetus of the Berlin crisis was gone and the public had ceased to show interest in shelters either through innate wisdom or sheer apathy, depending on which side of the shelter controversy you stand. Congress, already suspicious of the Administration's civil defense proposals, sensed the lack of public interest and finally approved only $113 million of the 695 million program. Shelter builders and suppliers began to go bankrupt after selling only a small fraction of their stock. In October, the Cuban crisis caused a small flurry...
...that the First Amendment requires the prohibition of religion in public activity is "sheer invention," he declared. "What about Sunday? What about Christmas? Can we allow such constitutional absolutism to deny our whole heritage...
...when the element of sheer physical excitement is missing from so many lives, football and such sports as hockey and lacrosse are becoming more attractive to the spectator who craves vicarious adventure, and even danger...